Red Dead Redemption 2 Map & Lore Explained! | The Leaderboard

The Red Dead Redemption 2 map is vast and filled with many interesting locations from historical locations. Join The Leaderboard as we break down Rockstar's take on the Wild West and all the lore and references they put in RDR2.

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Credits for This Episode
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Researched by: Austin Suther
Written by: Austin Suther
Hosted by: Sydney Amanuel
Edited by: Kyle Freudenberg

Executive Producers: Carrie Miller, Fred Seibert, Jeremy Rosen
Producers: Adrian Apolonio
Project Manager: Jessica Ferrer
Head Writer: Casey Gonzalez
Graphics and Thumbnail by: Alexandria Batchelor
Programming Manager: Darrian P. Mack

[banditdeluxe]

As a history buff who enjoys the lore/history/geography more than anything else about these kinds of games, this is EXACTLY the kind of video I needed.

[tankinator]

Normal people: Saint Dennis


RDR2 players: Sandy Knee

[nes]

Dont forget that the horse balls shrink when its winter

[jacobbarney]

Top 3 recurring comments
"It's pronounced sandy knee"
"Where's gavin"
"Dutch has a plan"

[thejanitor]

Abundant moose my ass... i have only seen TWO MOOSE THE ENTIRE TIME I PLAYED

[julianteo]

St. Denis is actually pronounced Sandy Knee

[lukedalley]

New Austin: Texas/Arizona/New Mexico/Nevada. West Elizabeth: Oklahoma, California, a little bit of the rockies. Ambarino: Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota. New Hanover: more Colorado and Wyoming, with a hint of Nebraska. Lemoyne: Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana. I can’t remember which state the northeast part of the map is in, but it’s definitely Tennessee/Appalachian regions.

[Tanner_Campbell]

Ambirino looks like Wyoming, it even has geysers and hot springs.

[shaybob]

Minor Spoiler Alert (not a main story spoiler)...

In the Epilogue if you buy the newspapers you can read an article that says Cornwall Oil found only a minuscule amount of oil in the Wapiti reservation area and abandoned the drill site a few years after the tribe fled north.

[Reddd]

“Terrible lizards” damn why’d they have to roast dinosaurs like that?

[rodelcampos]

4:20
Leaderboard:
Arthur: Theres always a goddamn train

[xolunaxoxo]

Chris Hansen just comes out after the video. “So I saw you commented about this girl here.”

[CoryTheRaven]

Nice overview! It does get even more specific... I'm a geology nerd, so I was stunned at how well places in the game match up to real life places. The Big Valley area is the Canadian Rocky Mountains, like you'd see in Montana's Glacier National Park and further north. Grizzlies West is more like the American Rockies of Colorado, and Grizzlies East is more like the Sierra Nevada mountains like in California's Yosemite National Park. Cotorra Springs is Yellowstone National Park. The Heartlands are the Midwest, and even cooler, the Dakota River Valley was clearly once a glacial lake during the Ice Age. Those silt cliffs along the river are a telltale sign. Scarlett Meadows is the American South, the red earth resembling that of Georgia. Roanoke Ridge is more or less Virginia and New England, into the Catskills and Appalachians. Annesburg is basically the coal region, like Pittsburgh.

[ksav]

U got the line wrong it’s
“Say what u will about the people round here they’re friendly

[_Booker_DeWitt]

Most of New Austin is more similar to New Mexico and Arizona. I think it represents a mixture of AZ, NM and TX

[adembroski]

"It's resoundingly Texan..."

Well, no. It's covered in sajuaro. Sajuaro cacti are endemic to the Sanoran desert, which is in Arizona ONLY in the US. There are no sajuaro in Texas.

[doinkripper]

Wished she wore the hat throughout the vid, pray fellow gamers for the return for Woody's hat

[leonstansfield]

The whole area around the Indian rese is meant to be Yellowstone. The hot springs are the most obvious pointer, but the waterfalls near there also look strikingly similar to Yellowstone falls. Not to forget the Shoshone and Sioux Indian tribes both resided there at some point (even if just for a few months before the battle of little big horn).

[PimsriYotube]

This is so nice! as a non-American, I never know about this, this is very nice video. I learn a new thing today :)

[Shadowy_knight]

New Austin- A mix of Arizona and New Mexico,
West Elizabeth- Possibly a mix of Texas, ok, kansas.
Ambarino Mountains, North side maybe Colorado 🤷 they do got mountains similar in North of New Mexico.
New Hanover- Missouri or Louisiana
Saint Denis Lemoyne definitely New Orleans, Louisiana.