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 ...

Wayne didn’t typically use vulgar language in his movies, but he allowed it as Cogburn in True Grit. However, he didn’t make this decision lightly. It was a character decision that fit the ...

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 ...

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”?

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 ...

If this wasn’t bad enough, the 67-year-old injured himself on the Rooster Cogburn set while teaching his eight-year-old daughter to play golf. But lucky for him, his character’s eye patch ...

The real-life Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn was a cowboy ... Fans of frontier arcana will revel in Cogburn's readable prose and lively characters. (Sept.) Headaches can be “among the worst pain ...