PAWNEE — How does the faculty chair at Pawnee Nation College become “Rooster Cogburn,” the character played by John Wayne in the original Oscar-winning movie “True Grit”? “Well ...

PAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - How does the faculty chair at Pawnee Nation College become “Rooster Cogburn,” the character played by John Wayne in the original Oscar-winning movie “True Grit”?

Hepburn wasn’t in True Grit, and so appears as the new character Miss Eula Goodnight in Rooster Cogburn. Apart from Wayne, virtually none of the people involved in the first film came aboard ...

FORT SMITH — The Fort Smith National Historic Site that houses Judge Isaac Parker’s true True Grit courthouse has a letter from author Charles Portis testifying that the character Rooster ...