Fill Your Hand

He was the Ringo Kid and the badman to Gail Russell’s angel. He was Hondo and the Conqueror. He was a searcher and a horse soldier who rode where only the great ones go. He was Davy Crockett and the Man who shot Liberty Valance. He was a cowboy and a shootist dying of cancer. But among his over 170 movies, John Wayne was also Rooster Cogburn, the character for whom he received the Best Actor Oscar in 1970. Two items featured in the 1969 True Grit and 1975 Rooster Cogburn—the Rooster Cogb