Anyone who has ever seen John Wayne's or Jeff Bridges’s Oscar caliber performances in True Grit (1969) (2010) has the indelible image of U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn etched upon the mind. But it won’t be Rooster’s voice that grips you in the novel True Grit. It is the clear as the deep blue sky voice of tough, 14 year-old Mattie Ross that at once commands your attention, and your heart, to follow her story as she avenges her father’s death in 1890’s Arkansas. Filled with adventure, kinship, humor, and the spirit of the West; it is no wonder this story and its memorable characters were adapted for film, not once, but two times. Slip into a bona fide American adventure and perhaps discover the essence of what it means to have it—true grit.