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Written by the great-great-grandson of the real "Rooster" Cogburn, this exciting account of a true American legend follows adventures of the larger-than-life outlaw who exacted his own special brand of justice and epitomized the wild spirit of the Old West. Reprint.
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About the Author:
Brett Cogburn is a two-time Spur Award-winning author and the great-grandson of the man who inspired True Grit, Rooster Cogburn. He was reared in Texas and the mountains of Southeastern Oklahoma, where his grandfather taught him to ride a bucking horse and his father taught him to hunt. He lives with his family on a little ranch in Oklahoma, where the West is still teaching him how to write. You can visit him at brettcogburn.com.
From Booklist:
Contrary to the book’s subtitle, author Cogburn makes clear early on that the lead character in Charles Portis’ True Grit was not based on his great-grandfather John Franklin Cogburn. Portis’ Rooster Cogburn “bears some resemblance” to the author’s ancestor, but so do other Arkansas mountain men named Cogburn. Rather than waste our time with a lot of tenuous connections between the real man and the fictional fella with the same nickname, the author instead amazes and astounds us with the true-life story of his great-grandfather, a mountain man and moonshiner whose blood feud with a deputy U.S. marshal led to Cogburn being arrested for murder. There’s also a rather sweet romantic story line—Can an outlaw find true love in the Wild West?—and plenty of history about the time in which Cogburn lived. Written in a fast-paced, novelistic style (the author’s first western novel is coming out in November), the book is sure to appeal to fans of Wild West history and to readers who would like to believe that True Grit has real-life connections (no matter how thin). --David Pitt
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- PublisherPinnacle Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0786032081
- ISBN 13 9780786032082
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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