From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Chris Mark wrote:   
      
   >>From: Gerald Clough   
   >   
   >   
   >>I had the privilege of meeting the old Spanish-born Ranger, Manuel T.   
   >>(Lone Wolf) Gonzaullas,   
   >   
   >   
   > As you probably know, Gonzaullas was the technical adviser to the old radio   
   > show "Tales of the Texas Rangers," that starred Joel McCrea as Ranger Jase   
   > Pearson.  I always thought it was a pretty daring show, for its time, about   
   the   
   > only one that acknowledged the existance of nonwhites as other than comedic   
   > relief. (the show also dealt with drug smuggling, domestic abuse, etc).   
   Blacks   
   > and Mexicans were just part of the environment the Rangers moved through   
   doing   
   > their job.   
      
   > Had the scripts been written as short stories, the author would probably be   
   > famous and maybe even read in literature classes.  But, being a writer of   
   radio   
   > plays, he (or she) is long forgotten.  Great writer, though.   
      
   Written by Joel Murcott, who has quite a number of radio and TV writing   
   credits.   
      
   And it morphed into a fairly popular television series of the same name,   
   both of which Stacy Keach, Sr. owned, produced and directed. The   
   televison version (different writers) was one of the prototypes of the   
   enduring steely-eyed-veteran-passionate-young-rookie partners formula.   
      
      
   --   
                          Gerald Clough   
       "Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."   
      
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