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.
In his own words: "My grandfather taught me to ride a bucking.
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.
With never-before-seen photos 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.
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And though he never packed a badge, Rooster meted out his own brand of justice--taking on a posse of U.
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
