![]() ![]() ![]() This Marshall is Rooster Cogburn, an aging drunkard and ex-Confederate soldier who’d served under the bloody command of Captain Quantrill, a “peace officer” notorious for shooting first and asking questions later. Marshall to hunt down Tom Chaney in the Choctaw Nation, where he has escaped with the Lucky Ned Pepper gang. When she arrives in Fort Smith, the place where her father was killed, she contracts a U. ![]() It is the elderly Mattie Ross’s first-person recollection as she looks back from the vantage of the 1920s on an adventure she had in the 1870s, when she was 14 years old.Ī rogue of a hired hand named Tom Chaney shot and killed Mattie’s kind, sober father in a drunken skirmish, so the adolescent sets out from her family farm in Yell County, Arkansas, to recover her father’s property and avenge his murder. True Grit, published in 1968, is a Western and a bildungsroman. Charles Portis, often hailed as a great but unsung American writer, died last month, so I read his most famous novel in memoriam. ![]()
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