Created by Charles Portis, this U.S. Marshal helps 14-year-old Mattie Ross track her father's killer
[DOC] [TLE] A Not-So-Hypo-Urbane Study of True Grit [PAR] Mattie travels to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where her father was gunned down, ... (25) 
Mattie hires Rooster to track down Tom Chaney, who has fled to the ... 25 years 
later Mattie finds out Rooster is in a circus, but after making a trip to ... 
Aesthetically, the book lends it self to an old time paperback Western novel (see 
attached).