True Grit

True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis.

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Portis’ novel tells the story of a , 69-year-old woman, Mattie Ross, a who seems to love , quoting , and going to . Now in 1928, she tells the story of what happened to her in her life 55 years earlier, in 1873.

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As a fourteen-year-old girl, Mattie Ross is out for revenge for her father’s death, at the hands of vagabond hired hand named Tom Chaney. Chaney had worked on the Ross’ family farm in west central Arkansas, near the town of Dardanelle in Yell County. Frank Ross and Chaney had gone to Fort Smith to buy some horses, for which Ross took along some silver dollars. Chaney then got drunk and lost his wages gambling, so he killed Ross to get the silver dollars. After Chaney murdered Frank Ross and stole his silver dollars, he fled through Fort Smith into Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). Learning that Chaney had hooked up with Ned Pepper and his gang, most of the marshals, especially those with families, didn’t want to risk going after the gang. Mattie aims to track him down, and when she arrives in Fort Smith she asks around for the toughest deputy United States Marshal in the district. That man is Deputy Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn, and although he is unkempt, overweight, middle-aged, has only one eye, is likely to shoot first and ask questions later, and never seems to miss a drink of whiskey, he also has “grit.” Mattie learns he has a reputation of getting his man, no matter what the odds, and no matter how hard it appears to be.

1968: 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar)....

Novel: A novel (from French nouvelle, "new") is an extended fictional narrative in prose. Down into the 18th century, the word referred specifically to short fictions of love and intrigue as opposed to romances—epic-length works about love and adventures. Having become one of the major literary genr...

Charles Portis: Charles McColl Portis (born December 28, 1933) is an American author best known for his 1968 classic Western novel True Grit and his 1966 novel Norwood....

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