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True Grit author Charles Portis based his Rooster Cogburn character on some real-life folks in Fort Smith, Arkansas, including John Franklin Cogburn and one-eyed Deputy Marshal Cal Whitson(shown, standing in front of his grocery store, second from right).


Wife and daughter of Frank S. Bliven (an auto dealer in Washington D.C.) in a 1907 Franklin Model D roadster