num_pages: 190
description: True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true cult status, this is an American classic through and through.
language: English
title: True Grit
titlecomplete: True Grit
characters: Mattie Ross, Tom Chaney, Rooster Cogburn, Ned Pepper
genres: Adventure, Audiobook, American, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Literature, Classics, Westerns, Fiction
ratings_count: 55560
places: Fort Smith, Arkansas, The United States of America, Indian Territory, Oklahoma
publisher: Signet