Lone Wolf: The Story of Texas Ranger Captain M.T. Gonzaullas

Description: Lone Wolf: The Story of Texas Ranger Captain M.T. Gonzaullas by Robert W. Stephens. First Edition. 1976. Signed by the Author. Limited Edition #263 of 650. Published by Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX. Hardcover. 79 pages. 6 in. X 9.25 in. Book in very good condition. Spine at top has minor ding as shown in photo. Please enlarge all photographs for details This book covers the history of Texas and the experiences of M.T. Gonzaullas, a legendary Texas Ranger. Manuel Trazazas "Lonewolf" Gonzaullas was born in 1891 in Cádiz, Spain to a Spanish father and Canadian mother who were naturalized U.S. citizens. He served as a Mexican army major at age 20, worked five years for the U.S. Treasury Department, and joined the Texas Rangers in 1920. During the ’20s and ’30s, Gonzaullas enforced the law in the oil fields and on the border. Known as “El Lobo Solo” (the Lone Wolf), he pursued bootleggers, gamblers and drug runners alone. In 1933, Governor Miriam Ferguson fired Gonzaullas and other Texas Rangers. In response, the Texas Legislature created the independent Department of Public Safety in 1935. Gonzaullas was appointed Superintendent of the D.P.S. Bureau of Intelligence and created a crime laboratory second only to that of the F.B.I. In 1940, Gonzaullas resigned from the Bureau and rejoined the Rangers as Captain of Company B in Dallas. After distinguished service, he retired in 1951, becoming a technical consultant for radio, motion pictures, and television shows such as Tales of the Texas Rangers. He helped found the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in 1968. Captain Gonzaullas died in Dallas in 1977 at age 85, leaving his scrapbooks and personal papers to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum.

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