The ship glided slowly up the Narrows; and from its deck Daren Lane saw the noble black outline of the Statue of Liberty limned against the clear gold of sunset.
He was a major force in shaping the myths of the Old West; his books and stories were adapted into other media, such as film and TV productions and as of 2012, 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell\'s Zane Grey Theater, had been made that were based loosely on Grey\'s novels and short stories..
In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, they had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions.
With his veracity and emotional intensity, he connected with millions of readers worldwide, during peacetime and war, and inspired many Western writers who followed him.
Grey became one of the first millionaire authors.
Riders of the Purple Sage was his best-selling book.
How impossible for any one to understand his feelings then, except perhaps the comrades who had survived the same ordeal Pearl Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier.
But at that moment his joy was too great to harbor strange misgivings.
His home-coming, so ceaselessly dreamed of by night and longed for by day, was not going to be what his hopes had created.
Was it only two years or twenty since he had left his country to go to war? A sense of strangeness dawned upon him.
A familiar old pang in his breast-longing and homesickness and agony, together with the physical burn of gassed lungs-seemed to swell into a profound overwhelming emotion."My own-my native land " he whispered, striving to wipe the dimness from his eyes.
The ship glided slowly up the Narrows; and from its deck Daren Lane saw the noble black outline of the Statue of Liberty limned against the clear gold of sunset
