Characters
This young rancher saves John Marston after being shot outside Fort Mercer.
Bonnie MacFarlane
Spider Gorge as well as O’Creah’s Run are both named after two actors who unfortunately met their untimely deaths prior to the game’s release who both played this character.
Uncle
Never given a real name or explaination, this character encounters John Marston in seemingly random locations across the map in the stranger mission simply known as “I Know You.”
Mysterious Stranger
Going atop this mountain in Red Dead Redemption 2 between the hours of 2am-3am will trigger a UFO to spawn.
Mount Shann
In the catalogue description for this weapon, the developers of Red Dead Redemption 2 slipped in a not so subtle dig at Rockstar Games about working long hours in order to meet the deadline for the game’s release.
Cattleman Revolver
Roger Clark won the Game Award for best voice acting/performance capture for his role as this character.
Arthur Morgan
Everything starts to fall apart for the Van Der Linde Gang after a robbery aboard a ferry in this town.
Blackwater, West Elizabeth
This “female” stage performer is part of a stranger mission where the player can acquire the rare ingredient needed to make the Lion’s Paw Trinket.
Mr. Margaret
This abandoned town hides an Easter egg referring to the famous “Don’t Open, Dead Inside” door from The Walking Dead
Pleasance, Lemoyne
Professor Marko Dragic, a Balkan scientist whom the player helps to built a robotic son of his own, is based off this real life scientist credited with inventions such as the radio, the remote control, and the induction engine.
Nikola Tesla
Described as “rat faced,” this outlaw is a friend of Micah Bell from his days prior to meeting Dutch and joining the Van Der Linde Gang.
Cleet
Underneath the gunsmith in this town, the owner has kidnapped a young man whom you can free after he pleads to the player from a basement window.
Rhodes, Lemoyne
This stranger mission consisting of three parts sees the player “helping” two brothers try to impress a woman they both love.
Oh Brother
At this church in New Austin, the player can find a gravestone marked “A Cowboy With No Name,” referring to Clint Eastwood’s famous Dollars Trilogy of western films.
Coot’s Chapel
This country music legend performed the song “Cruel World” for the Red Dead Redemption 2 soundtrack.
Willie Nelson
Before passing away in 2025, Canadian Indigenous actor, Graham Greene, played this character/leader of the Wapiti Nation.
Rains Fall
Other than Saint Denis, this is the only place in Red Dead Redemption 2 where the player can sit and watch a movie.
Valentine, New Hanover
This stranger meets the player on a cliff in Tall Trees and ends up dying from starvation and neglect while trying desperately to finish a book in the mission “The American Inferno, Burnt Out.”
Evelyn Miller
Rio Bravo in New Austin got its name from the 1959 film starring Dean Martin and this legendary western actor.
John Wayne
While the Civil War is canon within the Red Dead Redemption universe, this general for the Union Army is the only REAL person who commanded in the war and was not a fictional character created by Rockstar.
General Don Carlos Buell
Rather than being given a complex compendium entry, this animal is simply referred to as “a good boy” when players pull up his information while interacting with him
Rufus the Dog
John and Irish fight their way through an old mine in this location in order to get their hands on a Gatling gun to help take Fort Mercer from Bill Williamson’s Gang.
Gaptooth Ridge, New Austin
This “no talent brush washer,” stirs up all sorts of scandalous trouble for himself to the point where he must flee to the South Pacific dressed as a woman.
Charles Chatóney
Known simply as “Hill Home,” this location just east of the Wapiti Reservation is a reference to this fantasy series.
The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings
The Vampire of Saint Denis isn’t based off the charming and hands on image of Count Dracula, but rather this more monstrous vampire from the 1922 “Nosferatu.”
Count Orlock