The Deputy U.S. Marshal Had True Grit In the Novel, Two Films and Real Life

Indian Territory marshals had their work cut out for them. John Wayne, as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn, thunders across the screen, wearing a patch over his left eye, holding a six-gun in his left hand, a Winchester in his right and his horse’s rein between his teeth. No one who has seen …

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