The Blackwater Ledger is a newspaper publisher in Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2.
Description[]
The Blackwater Ledger is the primary newspaper source in Redemption, and one of three newspapers in Redemption 2, alongside the New Hanover Gazette and Saint Denis Times Tribune, that reports of various events actively taking place throughout the games' stories. The player can often find articles about events they were involved in, such as a robbery or disaster. Posting Mondays and Fridays, vendors can be seen selling these newspapers in local towns, such as Blackwater and Armadillo in Redemption, or Blackwater and Strawberry in Redemption 2.
The Blackwater Ledger is headquartered in the Blackwater Ledger Local News Printing & Publishing building in Blackwater. The company is owned by newspaper tycoon A. H. McInlay.
List of Issues[]
Red Dead Redemption 2[]
- Blackwater Ledger No. 62 - Available after "Eastward Bound"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 63 - Available after "Pouring Forth Oil IV"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 64 - Available after "The Sheep and the Goats"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 65 - Available after "Magicians for Sport"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 66 - Available after "The Joys of Civilization"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 67 - Available after "Urban Pleasures"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 68 - Available after "Dear Uncle Tacitus"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 69 - Available after "Visiting Hours"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 70 - Available after "The Bridge to Nowhere"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 71 - Available after "The King's Son"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 72 - Available after "The Wheel"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 73 - Available after "The Landowning Classes"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 74 - Available after "Uncle's Bad Day"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 75 - Available after "American Venom"
Red Dead Redemption[]
- Blackwater Ledger No. 53 - Available after "Political Realities in Armadillo"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 54 - Available after "The Sport of Kings, and Liars"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 55 - Available after "Hanging Bonnie MacFarlane"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 56 - Available after "Civilization, at Any Price"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 57 - Available after "My Sister's Keeper"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 58 - Available after "An Appointed Time"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 59 - Available after "The Prodigal Son Returns (To Yale)"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 60 - Available after "Great Men are Not Always Wise"
- Blackwater Ledger No. 213 - Available after "The Last Enemy That Shall Be Destroyed"
Trivia[]
- In Red Dead Redemption, the last issue is considerably different from the others. It is called The Blackwater Ledger and Sentinel instead of simply The Ledger, and generally has a different format.