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254 Miles of True Grit

Drive the True Grit Trail and discover the real towns real landscapes from Charles Portis' Great American Novel.
Cities and Towns on the True Grit Trail
The Yell County Historical Society invited four students from the East Lab program at Dardanelle High School—Michael Finkenbinder, Ryan Knight, Diego Hernandez and Robert Keech—to research Portis’s book and create a map of the trail based on locations from the story to present-day locations.
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