![]() ![]() She hires Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn to do the job, because she was told that he has "true grit." The rest of the book is a manhunt, moving from one encounter to another, with plenty of shootouts and narrow escapes, but it's Mattie's narration that raises this book above the level of an ordinary western. Mattie is determined to see Chaney brought to justice. Ross's two California gold pieces, and fled to the Indian Territories. The story of True Grit is a very simple one, introduced on page one: Tom Chaney, a hired hand working for Mattie's father, shot him in a moment of drunken stupidity, stole Mr. ![]() The voice of Mattie Ross, an unflappable, undissuadable, unreasonable, and completely indomitable fourteen-year-old girl who leaves home one winter to seek her father's killer, is the best part of this book. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie, as vital as she is innocent, outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Inverarity The most single-mindedly determined 14-year-old girl in the history of the West seeks justice for her father. ![]()
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