01255cam a2200289 4500 286777678 TxAuBib 20170303120000.0 100415s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781590204597 pbk. 159020459X pbk. TxAuBib Portis, Charles. True grit / Charles Portis ; with an afterword by Donna Tartt. New York : Overlook Press, 2010. 235 p. ; 21 cm. First published in 1968. Mattie Ross 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. 20170303. Teenage girls Fiction. Fathers Death Fiction. United States marshals Fiction. Outlaws Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Western stories. Humorous fiction.