"He was "the toughest marshal" working the Indian Territory on behalf of Judge Isaac Parker, the real-life judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas (having criminal jurisdiction in the Indian Territory, as the bailiff repeatedly announces in both films).When Cogburn goes to court in True Grit, it shows that Cogburn shot a total of 64 men in eight years, killing 60 – not counting the men he killed after the first of the Rooster Cogburn film, as then it would have been 70 shot and 66 killed.