True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who 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.
True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie hers.
Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.
S.
Mattie leaves home to avenge her father\'s blood.
True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who 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