Tag: Charles Portis

  • REVIEW of True Grit, by Charles Portis

    True Grit is the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen year old girl from Arkansas who sets out to avenge the murder of her father by the outlaw Tom Chaney. She hires an ornery, old U.S. Marshal named Rooster Cogburn and follows him out into Indian territory to take Chaney captive and bring him back…