Silvertips Search vs True Grit: Which Should You Read?

Silvertips Search Frederick Faust · 1933 208 pages · ≈ 3 h 51 m · Challenging

Arizona Jim Silver had to find Rap Bender, Judge Bender's missing son--the same Rap Bender who had joined guns with Silver's oldest and deadliest enemy. But when the legendary Silvertip finally caught up with Bender,…

True Grit Charles Portis · 1968 ★★★★☆ 4.3 218 pages · ≈ 4 h 02 m · Moderate

True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort…