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True grit [electronic resource] / Charles Portis ; with an afterword by Donna Tartt.

Portis, Charles. (Author). Tartt, Donna. (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 p.)
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2010.

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General Note:
First published in 1968.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Teenage girls > Fiction.
Fathers > Death > Fiction.
United States marshals > Fiction.
Outlaws > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Genre: Western stories.
Humorous fiction.
Electronic books.

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