![]() In True Grit, Mattie looks back on her quest for vengeance in 1923, fifty years later. ![]() Frank Ross, of course, is Mattie's dad, murdered by a servant in 1875-when she's all of 14 years old. The novel is Mattie Ross's "true account of how avenged Frank Ross' blood over in Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground" (7.337). (In fact, one of the only pictures we can find of the elusive Portis shows him hanging out on the red carpet with Wayne.) It hit the big screen almost immediately, in a 1969 Oscar-award winning adaptation with the Duke himself, John Wayne. ![]() We're talking train-robbing, shoot-outs, and dastardly outlaws we're talking wide open frontiers, gunslingers, and morally ambiguous lawmen.Ĭharles McColl Portis's True Grit was first published in 1968, in installments in big-time American weekly magazine The Saturday Evening Post. Turn off Red Dead Redemption, pry your bottom off the couch, and dust the cheetle off your fingers: we've got some real Wild West Action for you. ![]()
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