Was Reuben Cogburn A Real Person?
Was Reuben Cogburn A Real Person? The real-life Franklin “Rooster” Cogburn was a cowboy, moonshiner, and outlaw in Arkansas and Oklahoma in the late 1800s; on the silver screen, John Wayne and Jeff Bridges played varyingly fictionalized versions of the hardscrabble frontiersman in the 1969 and 2010 film adaptations of Charles Portis’ novel True Grit.