Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money.
True Grit is his most famous novel-first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers.
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