There was a real-life Rooster. The discovery was shared in 2012 by Oklahoma author Brett Cogburn, a Western novelist whose only nonfiction book is titled “Rooster: The Life and Times of the Real ...
The original “True Grit” movie is turning 50. A film that John Wayne used as a vehicle to win his only Academy Award, “True Grit” was released June 11, 1969. Wayne, who starred as Rooster Cogburn in ...