![]() I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band. People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. She is stern, pragmatic, fiercely independent and full of starch. The young girl, Mattie Ross, narrates the story. ‘True Grit’ tells the story of a headstrong 14-year-old girl who sets about bringing her father’s killer to justice with the help of a Deputy U.S Marshal. By all account it’s another classic, though not as true to the novel as the later film. Back in the 1969, just a year after the book was published, John Wayne starred in another version. It’s a great film but it wasn’t the novel’s first adaptation for the screen. ![]() Most people (like me) know of ‘ True Grit’ because of the 2010 Coen brothers movie of the same name. ![]()
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