True Grit by Charles Portis - Fiction - 235 pages

  • I read pages 1-47

    in theses pages following the murder of her father by Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie sets out to capture the killer. she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "rue grit Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whos character. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney.
  • I read pages 47-98

    IN these pages farmer Frank Ross heads with his employee Tom Chaney to Fort Smith to buy some horses. However, he is murdered by Chaney, who steals his money and flees to the Indian Territory. Frank's teenager daughter Mattie Ross travel with an employee to bring the body of her father back home.
  • I read pages 98- 159

    the summary of these pages is this. Mattie seeks out the sheriff that tells her that he does not have authority in the Indian Nation. She asks who the best Marshall is and the sheriff recommends "Rooster" Mattie hires the drunken Rooster .
  • I read pages 159 -210

    In these pages this is the summary. When Mattie is ready to depart, she finds that the Texas Ranger LaBoeuf had visited Rooster and proposed to share a huge reward for Tom Chaney in Texas for the murder of a senator. LaBoeuf and Rooster cross the river and Mattie joins them, and the unlikely trio begins its dangerous journey seeking out Tom Chaney in the Indian Territory
  • I read pages 210-235

    In these pages the trio of bounty hunters as i would call them try to find the killer in the Indian territory. they finally find him and he gets but into jail. They get the money and the book ends.