Ride to Glory: The Life and Times of a Texas Ranger

Title: Ride to Glory: The Life and Times of a Texas Ranger

Author: Michael J. Gilhuly, MD, JD and Marilyn C. Gilhuly
Publisher and/or Distributor: Longstreet Press, Inc.
Publisher Website: www.calltoglory.info
Pages: 244
ISBN: 1-56352-729-4
Price: $25
Publishing Date: 2004
Reader: Bob Spear

The saga continues. This second historical novel in a series about the Leroy Wiley family chronicles the hardships of having fought on the losing side in the Civil War. Leroy has come home to try to pull the pieces of his extended family together while spending long periods of time away from home riding with the Texas Rangers against Comanche Indians and rustlers. All this must be done under the watchful eye of a Northern occupying army filled with old foes.

Based on a real-life ancestor of Mrs. Gilhuly, this series smacks of realism. The interpersonal conflict between a long-suffering and sacrificing wife and the adrenalin-junkie husband who decides to go on a cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail to the railhead in Abilene, Kansas, becomes the emotional centerpiece of the story. The reader is provided a clear window into the historical issues of the time.