There was a movie made from this book starring Burt Lancaster among others with a PG rating, the book would be closer to an X rating, a story of 2 young teenage girls taking up with the outlaw band of Doolin-Dalton and company, it has graphic descriptions of the sex between two couples and then they enjoy a smoke of marijuana. The cover proclaims "Better than True Grit" and "smacks of Huck Finn and Calamity Jane", True Grit is an excellent book and I don't believe that Huck Finn deserves this mention either. I can't believe that any of the actors, Burt Lancaster, Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, Rod Steiger, John Savage, Buck Taylor, etc., read this book before making the movie.