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MAY IN TRUE GRIT HISTORY ★ 4TH-JUDGE ISAAC PARKER ARRIVES IN FT. SMITH ★ 17TH-DENNIS HOPPER BD
21ST-TRUE GRIT PUBLISHED ★ 22ND-CHARLESTON FOUNDED ★ 26TH-JOHN WAYNE BD
Map of 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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