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This is conjecture. In the book and movie by the same name True Grit when Little Blackie the horse was played out and died in the night carrying the marshall and Mattie to the trading post he had run to the end of his trail. If he we then remembered as "Night Hoss" by Rooster Cogburn. When Rooster finally came to the end of his trail, he may have referred to his own demise as running to he too was played out, just like Little Blackie, or Night Hoss. Just a guess.

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