True Grit

By Charles Portis
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True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post with a somewhat different storyline.
True Grit was adapted for the screen as a Western film of the same name, released in 1969 and starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross. Wayne reprised his role in Rooster Cogburn (1975) with an original screenplay.
In 2010, a new film adaptation was released. Also called True Grit, it was written and directed by the Coen brothers, and starred Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn.
Charles Portis’ novel True Grit is narrated by Mattie Ross, a thrifty, churchgoing spinster distinguished by independence and strength of mind. As an old woman in the year 1928, she tells the story of her adventures many years earlier, when, at the age of fourteen, she undertook a quest to avenge her father’s death at the hands of a drifter named Tom Chaney.

True Grit by Charles Portis: As Mattie’s tale begins, Chaney is employed on the Ross’ family farm in west central Arkansas, near the town of Dardanelle in Yell County. Chaney is not adept as a farmhand, and Mattie has only scorn for him, referring to him as “trash”, and noting that her kind-hearted father, Frank, only hired him out of pity. One day, Frank Ross and Chaney go to Fort Smith to buy some horses. Ross takes $ 250 with him to pay for the horses, along with two gold pieces he always carried. He ends up spending only $ 100 on the horses. When Ross tries to intervene in a barroom confrontation, Chaney kills him, robs the body of the remaining $ 150 and two gold pieces, and flees into Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) on his horse.
Hearing that Chaney has joined an outlaw gang led by the infamous “Lucky” Ned Pepper, Mattie wishes to track down the killer, and upon arriving at Fort Smith she looks for the toughest deputy Marshal in the district. That man turns out to be Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn, and although he is an aging, one-eyed, overweight, trigger-happy, hard-drinking man, Mattie is convinced that he has “grit”, and that he is best suited for the job.
Playing on Cogburn’s need for money, Mattie persuades him to take on the job, insisting that, as part of the bargain, she accompany him. During their preparation, a Texas Ranger named Le Boeuf appears. He too is tracking Chaney, for killing a senator and his dog in Texas, and hopes for glory and a big cash reward. Cogburn and Le Boeuf dislike each other, but after some haggling, they agree to join forces in the hunt. The two men attempt to leave Mattie behind, but she proves more tenacious than they had expected, and eventually she becomes an accepted member of their posse.
Together, but with very different motivations, the three ride into the wilderness to confront Ned Pepper’s gang. Along the way, they develop an appreciation for one another. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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