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True Grit

Charles Portis · 1968

235 pages

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After her father is shot dead in 1870s Arkansas, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross hires Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed U.S. marshal with a taste for whiskey, to hunt the killer into Indian Territory. A Texas Ranger joins them, and the three ride into a hard country where justice is personal.

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Wild West, Revenge, Coming of Age, Morally Grey Character, Quest

Content warnings: gun violence

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