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Not really. There were a number of scenes in True Grit II that were not in Portis' book. I.e, the entire bit of the hanging man in the tree, the "wild" man scene, etc.

Of course, in True Grit I, some of that was created through the imagination of the screenwriter. I.e., the Texas Ranger, LaBoeuf (Glen Campbell), was not killed, but after the fighting was over and Rooster had taken Mattie away for medical help, recovered the corpse of Tom Chaney from the pit of rattlesnakes and took it back to Texas.

That's just the way things are done in Hollywood. No need to try and make sense of it.

L.W.