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On the True Grit Trails

by | Feb 25, 2022 | Features & Gunfights

Travel across Arkansas, Oklahoma and Colorado and discover the real and imagined locations of the iconic novel and 1969 film’s locations. All Images by Johnny D. Boggs Unless Otherwise Noted True Grit’s Rooster Cogburn is fictional, but Bass Reeves (1838-1910) isn’t. Born into slavery, Reeves (below) served as a deputy marshal in Fort Smith and elsewhere. Reeves is honored with a monument (above) at Ross Pendergraft Park


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