![]() ![]() As he vowed to steal back his money, Frank tried to stop him. Afterwards, he flew into a rage, got drunk, and decided to go after the men who won his money. When they arrived in Fort Smith, though, Chaney acted wildly by gambling his money away. Taking pity on Chaney-a seemingly luckless man-Frank agreed to give him a job. While Mattie stayed at home with her mother and two younger siblings, Frank Ross took along Tom Chaney, a man from Louisiana who appeared one day and asked for work. Planning to buy a group of ponies from a man named Stonehill, her father traveled from Little Rock to Fort Smith, Arkansas to make the deal. Nonetheless, this is what she does after her father’s murder. Mattie Ross acknowledges that most people don’t believe a fourteen-year-old girl is capable of avenging her father’s death. ![]()
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