The True Story Behind True Grit Immortalized in the classic novel and films, the real Rooster Cogburn was as bold, brash, and bigger-than-life as the American West itself.
Brett Cogburn lives in Oklahoma with his family..
His first novel, Panhandle , will be published in November 2012.
The West is still teaching him how to write.
Cowboys are just as wild as they ever were, and I\'ve been damn lucky to have known more than a few.
In his own words: My grandfather taught me to ride a bucking horse, my mother gave me a love of reading, and my father taught me how to hunt my own meat and shoot straight.
Growing up around ranches, livestock auctions, and backwoods hunting camps filled Brett\'s head with stories, and he never forgot a one.
He was fortunate enough for many years to make his living from the back of a horse, where on cold mornings cowboys still straddled frisky broncs and dragged calves to the branding fire on the end of a rope from their saddlehorns.
Brett Cogburn was reared in Texas and the mountains of Southeastern Oklahoma.
Some folks are just born to tell tall tales.
Fry, one-eyed Deputy Marshal Cal Whitson, Joseph Peppers (Lucky Ned), Joseph Spurling (Mattie Ross\'s grandfather) and bank robber Frank Chaney (scar-faced Tom Chaney.) Behind it all stood a man named Rooster, with two good eyes and a tale all his own.
A fascinating portrait of a true American icon, Rooster shows us the making of a legend--fashioned by Arkansas newspaperman Charles Portis with bits and pieces of historical figures, including Deputy Reuben M.
Proud, stubborn, fearless, and ornery to the bitter end.
Now a wanted man, with a $500 reward on his head, Rooster would ultimately have to defend himself before a hanging judge. deputy marshals in a blazing showdown of gunfire and blood.
And though he never packed a badge, Rooster meted out his own brand of justice--taking on a posse of U.
S.
The only authority the Cogburn clan recognized was God and a gun.
Six foot three, dark eyed, and a dead shot with a rifle, Franklin Rooster Cogburn was as hard as the rocky mountain ground his family settled.
He was born in 1866 in Fancy Hill, Arkansas, the descendant of pioneers and moonshiners. . .
Now, in this page-turning account, Cogburn\'s great-great-grandson reveals the truth behind the fiction--and the man behind the myth.
The True Story Behind True Grit Immortalized in the classic novel and films, the real Rooster Cogburn was as bold, brash, and bigger-than-life as the American West itself
