Manuel Gonzaullas
Manuel 'Lone Wolf' Gonzaullas
(1891-1977)
Born in Cadiz, Spain to a Spanish father and a Canadian mother, Manuel Gonzaullas served as a Mexican army major at 20, worked five years at the U.S. Treasury then joined the Texas Rangers in 1920. He was nicknamed "El Lobo Solo" (The Lone Wolf), Gonzaullas went after bootleggers, gamblers and drug runners alone.
In 1933 Gov. Miriam "Ma" Ferguson fired Gonzaullas and other Rangers. In a counter action, the Texas Legislature created the Department of Public Safety in 1935, Gonzaullas appointed Superintendent of the D.P.S. Bureau of Intelligence. The crime lab he created was second only to the FBI's. In 1940, Lone Wolf resigned the D.P.S. and rejoined the Rangers, this time with Company B in Dallas. He helped found the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, leaving all his memoirs, scrapbooks and other personal papers to the museum when he died.