Title: True Grit
Description: True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It 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.
Subjects: Death, Teenage girls, Western fiction, United States marshals, Fathers, Fiction in English, Revenge, Fiction, Outlaws, Fiction, westerns, Fiction, humorous, Large type books, Western stories, Fiction, humorous, general
Places: Western United States
Time periods: 19th century