There are many documents that the player can acquire throughout the game, such as letters that never reached their intended recipient, books, and notes.
Letters[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Letter to Uncle Lewis from Elijah | Can be found on the corpse of a runaway slave random encounter, on the shore southwest of Shady Belle. | Yes | Yes |
Lost Letter to Bonnie | Can be looted from the corpse in the "washed ashore" random encounter near Flatneck Station. | Yes | Yes |
Invitation from Mayor Lemieux | Can be found at a post office after completing the mission "The Gilded Cage". | Yes | No |
Second Invitation from Mayor Lemieux | Can be found at a post office after completing the stranger mission "Idealism and Pragmatism for Beginners - II". | Yes | No |
Letter to Nate from Momma | Can be found in the Catfish Jacksons cabin during home robbery or during the mission "Money Lending and Other Sins V". | Yes | Yes |
Letter to Edmund from Mother | Can be obtained in the basement of Lucky's Cabin during the stranger mission "American Dreams". | Yes | Yes |
Letter to the Editor | Can be obtained in the basement of Lucky's Cabin during the stranger mission "American Dreams". | Yes | Yes |
Letter to Martha from Garfield | Can be obtained at Martha's Swain. | Yes | No |
Letter to Garfield from Martha | Can be found at Bolger Glade on Garfield, who is bayoneted against a tree. | Yes | No |
Letter to Brother Rodolfo | Can be obtained near the Sea of Coronado from a corpse of a Jesuit Missionary, who is a point of interest. | Yes | No |
Oil Company Letter to Cornwall | During the mission "Who the Hell is Leviticus Cornwall?", on the desk close to the door in Cornwall's private train carriage. | Yes | Yes |
Mining Company Letter to Cornwall | During the mission "Who the Hell is Leviticus Cornwall?", on the desk in Cornwall's private train carriage. | Yes | Yes |
Letter to Bronte from the Mayor | During the mission "The Gilded Cage", found on the desk. | Yes | Yes |
Lemoyne Raiders Letter | Can be looted from a member of the Lemoyne Raiders. | Yes | No |
Letter to Angelo Bronte | During the mission "Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern", on the nightstand in the same room with the Gold Shield. | Yes | Yes |
Letter from Cornwall Kerosene & Tar | Can be found on the corpse at the foot of the Oil Derrick. | Yes | Yes |
Letter to Henrietta Douglas | Can be found in the lock box inside the abandoned mail wagon, southwest of Fort Wallace. | Yes | No |
Letter to William Errington | Can be found in the lock box inside the abandoned mail wagon, southwest of Fort Wallace. | Yes | No |
Letter to the Saint Denis Times Tribune | Can be found in the lock box inside the abandoned mail wagon, southwest of Fort Wallace. | Yes | No |
Letter to Judge Finley | Can be found in the lock box inside the abandoned mail wagon, southwest of Fort Wallace. | Yes | No |
Letter to Miriam Wegner | Can be found in the lock box inside the abandoned mail wagon, southwest of Fort Wallace. | Yes | No |
Letter from St. Luke's Academy | Can be looted from a worker at the Appleseed Timber Company before end of chapter 6 or completing all four stages of Appleseed Timber Company event area. | Yes | Yes |
Letter from Charlotte | Obtained during the Willard's Rest home robbery in chapter 6. | Yes | Yes |
Letter to Curtis from M | Obtained by looting Sheriff Curtis Malloy in Valentine. | Yes | No |
Letter to the doctor from Donal | Can be looted from the Valentine doctor. | Yes | No |
Letter from 'Caroline' | Obtained during the mission "Dear Uncle Tacitus". | Yes | Yes |
Letter from Mary | Can be taken from Arthur's tent during chapter 2. | Yes | No |
Second Letter from Mary | Can be taken from Arthur's room during chapter 4. | Yes | No |
Goodbye Letter from Mary | Received at the end of the mission "Goodbye, Dear Friend". | Yes | No |
Letter to Mr. Compson from Col. Nixon | Can be taken during the stranger mission "The Iniquities of History". | No | Yes |
Letter of Termination | Can be taken during the stranger mission "The Iniquities of History". | No | Yes |
Note to Jeremiah from Bill | Can be taken during the stranger mission "The Iniquities of History". | No | Yes |
Letter from Charles Châtenay | Can be found at a post office after completing the stranger mission "The Artist’s Way". | Yes | No |
Letter to Mayor Timmins from Belinda | Can be looted from Mayor Nicholas Timmins, a special character found in Strawberry before attending both encounters. | Yes | Yes |
Letter to Anthony from Dad | Can be looted from a male tourist in or around Strawberry Welcome Center in the morning in epilogue. | Yes | No |
Mine Share | During the mission "Magicians for Sport", in Trelawny's caravan. | Yes | Yes |
Letter from the Mayor's Office | Can be collected from a post office after completing the stranger mission "Idealism and Pragmatism for Beginners". | Yes | No |
Note to Ma | Can be looted from self-appointed law thugs in Van Horn Trading Post. | Yes | No |
Dear Annabella Poem | Can be found in the Vetter's Echo cabin, just east of Pronghorn Ranch. | Yes | No |
A Day's Walk Poem | Can be found in the Vetter's Echo cabin, just east of Pronghorn Ranch. | Yes | No |
Letter to Jim from Mildred | Can be found on the doorstep of the Lenora View cabin, north of Strawberry, one in-game day after finding the Note from Jim. | Yes | No |
Letter to Tom from Colm | During the mission "Mrs. Sadie Adler, Widow", can be looted from the final O'Driscoll during part two of the mission. | Yes | Yes |
Telegram from Sadie | Can be obtained during the mission "Motherhood" | Yes | No |
Letter from Abigail | During the mission "Motherhood", read by John. | No | No |
Note from Robert Elliot Patchen | Can be found underneath the Nevada hat, behind the waterfall at Granite Pass. | Yes | No |
Letter to Annette from Claude | Can be found on the corpse outside the Robard Farm cabin around Southfield Flats. | Yes | No |
Mysterious Sermon | Can be found on the desk inside Hani's Bethel. | Yes | No |
Letter to Glen and Eddie from Momma | Can be found at Clawson's Rest. | Yes | No |
Letter to Pa | Can be looted from any bank clerk, suggest looting bank clerk in Lemoyne National Bank in Saint Denis. | Yes | No |
Faded Letter | Can be found in a chest on the islands to the northeast of Saint Denis & west of Sisika Penitentiary. | Yes | No |
Letter to Bubba from Jillian | Can be looted from some residents of Valentine or Strawberry. | Yes | No |
Letter to Mother from Miles | Can be looted from older female Blackwater townsfolk. | Yes | No |
Letter to Jacob from Father | Can be looted from older male Blackwater townsfolk. | Yes | No |
Letter to Mandy | Can be looted from male Blackwater townsfolk. Near dock area seems to work best. | Yes | No |
Letter to Alfred from Annabel | Can be looted from rich male Blackwater townsfolk. | Yes | No |
Letter to Alfred from Matilda | Can be looted from rich male Blackwater townsfolk. | Yes | No |
A letter from Penelope | Can be taken from Arthur’s tent during chapter 6. | Yes | No |
Electric Chair Blueprint | Can be looted from the body of the professor Andrew Bell III at the end of the stranger mission "The Mercies of Knowledge". | Yes | Yes |
Letter from Ms. Hobbs | Can be taken from any post office after the player has completed four hunting request stages of the stranger mission "A Better World, A New Friend" before end of chapter 6. | Yes | Yes |
Letter to Nigel from Tom | Can be looted from a special character called "Gavin's friend" before attending all 6 encounters of him (4 in chapters 2-6 and 2 in the epilogue). | Yes | Yes |
List of Accounts | During the mission "Revenge is a Dish Best Eaten", found on the desk in Bronte's office. | Yes | Yes |
Letter to Martin from Father | Can be looted from any of the U.S. Army soldiers. | Yes | No |
Letter from Theodore Levin | Can be found at a post office after completing the stranger mission "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman". | Yes | No |
Letter from Tilly* | Can be obtained from dining table in Beecher's Hope after encounter with Tilly in Saint Denis after completing the mission "A Quick Favor for an Old Friend".
Warning: After encounter, do not save and load the game before reading the note because if the player saves and loads the game before reading the note, the note will disappear after loading for unknown reasons. |
No | Yes |
Gray Family History Letter | Can be found near the corpse of Tavish Gray, at the back of the Gray Family's mansion after completing the mission "Horse Flesh for Dinner". | Yes | No |
Letter to Margaret from Arnold | Can be looted from rich, female Rhodes townsfolk. | Yes | No |
Letter from Scruffers & Co. Publishers | Can be looted from rich male Rhodes townsfolk. | Yes | No |
Letter from Scruffers & Co. Publishers | Can be looted from rich female Rhodes townsfolk. | Yes | No |
Letter from Scruffers & Co. Publishers | Can be looted from rich male Saint Denis townsfolk near Bastille Saloon. | Yes | No |
Letter from Miss Marjorie | Received after completing the stranger mission "The Smell of the Grease Paint" and watching the live performance of Miss Marjorie and her troupe, then speaking to the ticket taker at Théâtre Râleur. | Yes | Yes |
Note to Mother | Can be looted from older, rich female Saint Denis townsfolk. | Yes | No |
Molly's Poem* | Can be found at the gang campsite. | No | No |
Bill's Dishonorable Discharge* | Can be found at the gang campsite. | No | No |
Letter from Lenny's Father* | Can be found at the gang campsite. | No | No |
Letter to Micah from Amos* | Can be found at the gang campsite during chapter 4. | No | No |
Beau's Letter | Obtained during the mission "The Course of True Love I". | No | No |
Penelope's Letter | Obtained during the mission "The Course of True Love II". | No | No |
Letter from Mr. Pearson | Obtained during the mission "Further Questions of Female Suffrage". | No | No |
Bank Credit Letter | Obtained during the mission "Home of the Gentry?". | No | No |
Letter to Zhou Yi from Zhou Wei | Can be looted from the corpse of Zhou Yi in a camp Northeast of Armadillo. | Yes | Yes |
Letter to Herbert from Herberta | Can be looted from Herbert Moon, the owner of the general store in Armadillo. | Yes | No |
Letter to Momma | Can be looted from a man in Armadillo. | Yes | No |
Unfinished Letter | Can be looted from a corpse during a random encounter with the undertaker in Armadillo.
Warning: Sometimes the random encounter does not respawn for a second time, suggest the player loot the letter in a first time the player met the random encounter and must knock the undertaker out or kill him before looting the corpse.[1] |
Yes | Yes |
Letter to Mavis from Larry | Can be looted from the Tumbleweed general store owner. | Yes | No |
Notes[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Nite Folk Victim's Note | Obtained during a random encounter by looting a hanging corpse.
Note: The game allows the player to collect only 2 of 4 hanging corpse notes so the note will be unavailable if the player has collected Murfree Brood Prisoner's Note and Murfree Brood Ransom Note. |
Yes / No | Yes |
Nite Folk Wagerer's Note | Obtained during a random encounter by looting a hanging corpse.
Note: The game allows the player to collect only 2 of 4 hanging corpse notes so the note will be unavailable if the player has collected Nite Folk Victim's Note and Murfree Brood Prisoner's Note or Murfree Brood Prisoner's Note, Murfree Brood Ransom Note and Nite Folk Victim's Note (sometime the player can collect 3 hanging corpse notes because of the game glitch, there are no enemies spawn when the player started 3rd hanging corpse random encounter). |
Yes / No | Yes |
Saint Denis Trolley Rider's Digest | Obtained at the train station in Saint Denis. | Yes | No |
Murfree Brood Prisoner's Note | Obtained during a random encounter by looting a hanging corpse.
Note: The game allows the player to collect only 2 of 4 hanging corpse notes so the note will be unavailable if the player has collected Nite Folk Victim's Note and Nite Folk Wagerer's Note. |
Yes / No | Yes |
Murfree Brood Ransom Note | Obtained during a random encounter by looting a hanging corpse.
Note: The game allows the player to collect only 2 of 4 hanging corpse notes so the note will be unavailable if the player has collected Nite Folk Victim's Note and Murfree Brood Prisoner's Note or Nite Folk Victim's Note, Nite Folk Wagerer's Note and Murfree Brood Prisoner's Note (sometime the player can collect 3 hanging corpse notes because of the game glitch, there are no enemies spawn when the player started 3rd hanging corpse random encounter). |
Yes / No | Yes |
Note from Rance | Can be taken during the stranger mission "The Iniquities of History". | No | Yes |
Bluewater Marsh Coach Tip | Obtained during the stranger mission "The Mercies of Knowledge". The note will disappear from the satchel after the player has completed the mission "Red Dead Redemption". | No | No |
List of Debtors | Obtained during the mission "Money Lending and Other Sins I". | Yes | No |
Civil War Report | Found in a chest in the basement of Fort Brennand, along with a gold nugget. | Yes | No |
Theatre Ticket | During mission "The Gilded Cage", talk to smoking people in the party. | Yes | Yes |
Note from Jim | Found on the doorstep of the Lenora View cabin, north of Strawberry. | Yes | No |
Letter to Pa | Can be looted from a rally member during any "Rally" random encounter ("KKK" random encounter). | Yes | Yes |
Meeting Notes | Can be looted from a rally member during any "Rally" random encounter ("KKK" random encounter). | Yes | Yes |
Missing Person Poster | Found outside the Old Light Saloon and referred to in an ambient camp conversation. | Yes | No |
Experiment Notes 1 | Found inside the cabin directly west of Van Horn, close to the railroad. The Manmade Mutant can also be found here, which is a point of interest. | Yes | No |
Experiment Notes 2 | Found inside the cabin directly west of Van Horn, close to the railroad. The Manmade Mutant can also be found here, which is a point of interest. | Yes | No |
Experiment Notes 3 | Found inside the cabin directly west of Van Horn, close to the railroad. The Manmade Mutant can also be found here, which is a point of interest. | Yes | No |
Experiment Notes 4 | Found inside the cabin directly west of Van Horn, close to the railroad. The Manmade Mutant can also be found here, which is a point of interest. | Yes | No |
Note from the Sculptor | Found on the corpse of the sculptor who hung himself at the Face in Cliff site, shoot the rope to make the body fall. | Yes | Yes |
Watson's Scrapbook Page | Found on the kitchen table during the third encounter of the Watson's Cabin home robbery, after you obtained the loot. You must come back after 1 in-game day to find it. | Yes | Yes |
Telegram to Police Chief Lambert | During mission the "Revenge is a Dish Best Eaten", found on the desk in Bronte's office. | Yes | Yes |
Dutch's Speech Notes | Can be found on a table beside a broken wagon near camp during chapter 2. | Yes | Yes |
English Spelling Practice | Found on a school desk at Fort Riggs, southwest of Riggs Station. | Yes | No |
Wedding Certificate | Found in the loot box on a crashed wagon at the base of the Monto's Rest cliff, just northeast of Strawberry. | Yes | Yes |
Liability Agreement | Can be taken from a table after completing the stranger mission "The Wisdom of the Elders". | Yes | Yes |
Property Deed | Can be taken from a Percy Whitsickle's table at end of the second encounter of the Central Union Railroad event area.
Warning: Taking the Property Deed will make the event area stuck in second encounter and cannot continue to third encounter. |
Yes | Yes |
Shopping List | Obtained during the mission "Further Questions of Female Suffrage". | No | No |
Inventor's Note | Can be obtained at Doverhill during the third encounter of the stranger mission "A Bright Bouncing Boy". | Yes | Yes |
Inventor's Plan | Can be obtained at Doverhill during the third encounter of the stranger mission "A Bright Bouncing Boy". | Yes | Yes |
Norwegian Journal Page | Can be found inside the chimney in the smaller cabin at Manzanita Post. | Yes | No |
Rare Orchids Order | Can be taken from any post office after completing the stranger mission "Duchesses and other Animals".
Warning: After completing the stranger mission, do not save and load the game before taking the note because if the player saves and loads the game before taking the note, the note will disappear after loading for unknown reasons. |
Yes | Yes |
Books[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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True Tales of Frank Heck, No. 102 | Can be taken on a nightstand in the shack near Lake Don Julio. Can also be found in Shady Belle once the camp has been established (chapter 4). | Yes | No |
Hopes for the Future | Given by Dr. MacIntosh, a special character found in Annesburg. | Yes | No |
Farm, Field and Falconry | Obtained during the stranger mission "Idealism and Pragmatism for Beginners". | Yes | No |
The Lady of the Manor | Obtained from Mary-Beth during the Epilogue encounter in Valentine. | Yes | No |
Get Rich Quick | Given by Timothy A. Donahue, a special character in a random encounter found in Saint Denis near the Bastille Saloon. | Yes | No |
The Case of the Deceitful German* | Can be read at Hosea's tent. | No | No |
The Case of the Shrew in the Fog | On a coffee table inside the main house at Hagen Orchards. | Yes | No |
Otis Miller and the Arabian Prince | It is on a nightstand in Clawson's Rest. | Yes | No |
Otis Miller and the Black-Hearted Lady | It is on a nightstand in Osman Grove. | Yes | No |
Otis Miller and the Boy from New York | It is on a table in the abandoned schoolhouse near Pleasance. | Yes | No |
Wild West Heroes, No. 132 | It is on a nightstand in the house at Downes Ranch. | Yes | No |
Wild Man's Journal | Follow the Wild Man to his cave in the third encounter, kill the wolves and pick up a Wild Man's Journal. | Yes | Yes |
Rambles Through Woods and Plains | Can be taken from Arthur's tent until chapter 6. | Yes | Yes |
Zoological Compendium | Can be taken from Arthur's tent until chapter 6. | Yes | Yes |
The American Inferno* | Can be read at Dutch's tent. | No | No |
An American Eden** | Can be read at Dutch's tent. | No | No |
Existence and Oblivion* | Can be read at Dutch's tent. | No | No |
Diary* | Can be read during the stranger mission "The Iniquities of History". | No | No |
America | Obtained during the stranger mission "The American Inferno, Burnt Out". | Yes | No |
The Castle Above the Glen* | Can be read at gang campsite. | No | No |
The Castle Above the Moor* | Can be read at gang campsite. | No | No |
The Castle in the Field of Lavender* | Can be read at gang campsite during chapter 4. | No | No |
Mary-Beth's Notebook* | Can be read at gang campsite. | No | No |
Jail Ledger | Can be taken after starting Ellie Anne Swan bounty hunting mission before end of chapter 6 and after hogtying or killing Sheriff Curtis Malloy. The book is on Sheriff Curtis Malloy's desk in the Valentine Sheriff's Office. | Yes | Yes |
Handbills[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Lake Lure Handbill | Obtained during the mission "The New South" or after buying the lake lure. | Yes | No |
Swamp Lure Handbill | Obtained after buying the swamp lure. | Yes | No |
River Lure Handbill | Obtained after buying the river lure. | Yes | No |
Special Lake Lure Handbill | Obtained after triggering the stranger mission "A Fisher of Fish" and buying the special lake lure. | Yes | No |
Special Swamp Lure Handbill | Obtained after triggering the stranger mission "A Fisher of Fish" and buying the special swamp lure. | Yes | No |
Special River Lure Handbill | Obtained after triggering the stranger mission "A Fisher of Fish" and buying the special river lure. | Yes | No |
Eugenics Handbill | Given by Professor Norris Forsythe, a special character found in Saint Denis. | Yes | No |
Chelonian Handbill | Given by Anders Helgerson, a special character in Saint Denis to Arthur Morgan only. | Yes | Yes |
Charity Handbill | Can be taken from Thomas Downes's table, a special character in Valentine between the beginning of chapter 2 and after mission "Americans at Rest" (can meet him only one time, before or after mission "Americans at Rest"). | Yes | Yes |
Cholera Handbill | Given by the Armadillo town crier, a special character found in Armadillo. | Yes | No |
Drawings[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Jack's Drawing | Reward for completing Jack's item request (Abigail's thimble) during chapter 2. | Yes | Yes |
Charles Châtenay's Sketch | Given by Charles Châtenay during the stranger mission "The Artist's Way". | Yes | No |
Son's Drawing | Can be looted from the Rhodes gunsmith.
Note: Some people have problems finding this as John. |
Yes | Yes |
Business Cards[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Phineas's Business Card | Given by Phineas T. Ramsbottom after triggering the stranger mission "Smoking and other Hobbies". | Yes | No |
Algernon's Business Card | Given by Algernon Wasp if the player saves him in the mission "The Gilded Cage". | Yes | Yes |
Jeremy's Business Card | Given by Jeremy Gill after triggering the stranger mission "A Fisher of Fish". | Yes | No |
Francis's Business Card | Given by Francis Sinclair after triggering the stranger mission "Geology for Beginners". | Yes | No |
Newspaper Scraps[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Grave Newspaper Clipping | Can be found on the table inside the Planters Baun cabin. | Yes | No |
Newspaper scrap | Can be found inside the Old Harry Fen shack. | Yes | No |
Micah Newspaper Scrap | Can be found in Micah's camp after completing the mission "An American Pastoral Scene". | Yes | No |
Blackwater Ledger Scrap | Can be found in Micah's camp after completing the mission "An American Pastoral Scene". | Yes | No |
Bennett Brothers Newspaper Scrap | Can be looted from the prospector near Butcher Creek, Percy Whitsickle at Central Union Railroad Camp or from the residents of Annesburg. | Yes | No |
First Bank Robbery Newspaper Scrap* | Can be found at the gang campsite. | No | No |
New England Examiner Scrap* | Can be found at the gang campsite during chapter 4. | No | No |
The Imperialist of London Scrap** | Can be found at the gang campsite during chapter 3. | No | No |
Norwegian Newspaper Scrap | Can be looted from residents of Manzanita Post. | Yes | No |
Photographs[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Family Photograph | Can be found under the floorboard inside the Old Harry Fen shack. | Yes | No |
Wolves Photograph | Given at the end of the stranger mission "Arcadia for Amateurs - III". | Yes | Yes |
Bride Photograph | Found on the corpse of Jim random encounter, close to the crashed wagon at the base of the Monto's Rest cliff, just northeast of Strawberry. | Yes | Yes |
Billy Midnight Photograph | Received during the stranger mission "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman". | No | No |
Black Belle Photograph | Received during the stranger mission "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman". | No | No |
Emmet Granger Photograph | Received during the stranger mission "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman". | No | No |
Flaco Hernandez Photograph | Received during the stranger mission "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman". | No | No |
Slim Grant Photograph | Received during the stranger mission "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman". | Yes | No |
Erotic Photograph 1 | Obtained inside a chest with Otis Miller's Revolver at Rattlesnake Hollow. | Yes | No |
Erotic Photograph 2 | Obtained inside a chest with Otis Miller's Revolver at Rattlesnake Hollow. | Yes | No |
Erotic Photograph 3 | Obtained inside a chest with Otis Miller's Revolver at Rattlesnake Hollow. | Yes | No |
Erotic Photograph 4 | Obtained inside a chest with Otis Miller's Revolver at Rattlesnake Hollow. | Yes | No |
Erotic Photograph 5 | Obtained inside a chest with Otis Miller's Revolver at Rattlesnake Hollow. | Yes | No |
Norwegian Photo | Can be found in the floorboards inside the Manzanita Post. | Yes | No |
Arthur's Father | Can be found at Arthur's tent. | No | No |
Arthur's Dog | Can be found at Arthur's tent. | No | No |
Hosea, Dutch, Arthur | Can be found at Arthur's tent. | No | No |
Young Mary & Arthur Photograph | Received at the end of the mission "Goodbye, Dear Friend". | Yes | No |
Angelo Bronte Photograph | Can be found in Bronte's mansion. | No | No |
Bounty Posters[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Bounty Poster - Wilson J. McDaniels | Obtained during the stranger mission "The Mercies of Knowledge". The bounty poster will disappear from the satchel after the player has completed the mission "Red Dead Redemption". | No | No |
Dutch's Wanted Poster | Can be found in Micah's camp after completing the mission "An American Pastoral Scene". | Yes | No |
Gideon Bennett Bounty Poster | Can be taken from post office in Annesburg. | Yes | No |
Bounty Poster - Mr Black & Mr White | Can be taken during the stranger mission "The Ties That Bind Us". | Yes / No (depends on player's choice) | No |
Javier's Bounty Poster** | Can be found at the gang campsite during chapter 4. | No | No |
Maps[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Legendary Animal Map | Given during the mission "Exit Pursued by a Bruised Ego". | Yes | No |
Pieced Together Map | Obtained by completing all three "Murder Scene" random encounters. | Yes | No |
Panoramic Map | Found on frozen bodies encounter near Colter. | Yes | No |
Sketched Map | Found in the chimney of Reed Cottage. | Yes | No |
Legendary Fish Map | Given during the stranger mission "A Fisher of Fish". | Yes | No |
Treasure Maps[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Chick's Treasure Map | Received during the mission "Money Lending and Other Sins II". | Yes | Yes |
Torn Treasure Map 1 | Found in a drawer inside the cabin of the hermit woman near the source of Little Creek River, or inside the cottage of the special character Hermit at Manito Glade, north of Annesburg (disappear after combine with the Torn Treasure Map 2). | No | No |
Torn Treasure Map 2 | Found in a drawer inside the cabin of the hermit woman near the source of Little Creek River, or inside the cottage of the special character Hermit at Manito Glade, north of Annesburg (disappear after combine with the Torn Treasure Map 1). | No | No |
Mended Map | Obtained after the player found the Torn Treasure Map 1 and the Torn Treasure Map 2. | Yes | No |
High Stakes Treasure Map 1 | Can be obtained by looting or picking up the map from a man during a random encounter found between Diablo Ridge and Riggs Station or can be purchased from a fence.
Note: The random encounter will not appear until the player has started the stranger mission "All That Glitters". |
Yes | No |
High Stakes Treasure Map 2 | Can be found under the waterfall at Cumberland Falls. | Yes | No |
High Stakes Treasure Map 3 | Can be found at Barrow Lagoon. | Yes | No |
Jack Hall Gang Map 1 | Can be obtained from Máximo during the stranger mission "All That Glitters" or can be purchased from a fence. | Yes | No |
Jack Hall Gang Map 2 | Can be found at Caliban's Seat. | Yes | No |
Jack Hall Gang Map 3 | Can be found at Cotorra Springs. | Yes | No |
The Poisonous Trail Map 1 | Can be found inside a lock box at Cairn Lodge. | Yes | No |
The Poisonous Trail Map 2 | Can be found at Face Rock in Scarlett Meadows. | Yes | No |
The Poisonous Trail Map 3 | Can be found east of Mossy Flats. | Yes | No |
The Elemental Trail Map 1 | Can be found on the shores of the Sea of Coronado, southwest of Tumbleweed. There will be a corpse hanging from a cliff, shooting the rope and looting the body will get the map. | Yes | No |
The Elemental Trail Map 2 | Can be looted from the chimney in Greenhollow. | Yes | No |
The Elemental Trail Map 3 | At Benedict Point, there’s a gutter on stilts running from a water tank on the hillside to the train tracks, for refilling train boilers. Following the gutter leads the player to the front of the water tower, which they can search. | Yes | No |
Le Tresor des Morts Map 1 | Can be found in the jailhouse, in Limpany, near a dead prisoner, for players that have pre-ordered a digital version of the game. [2] | Yes | No |
Le Tresor des Morts Riddle Note | Can be found in an underground area that can be accessed from the docks in Saint Denis after the player has found Le Tresor des Morts Map 1, for players that have pre-ordered the digital version, or own the Special/Ultimate edition. | Yes | No |
Landmarks of Riches Map 1 | Can be found on the Obelisk point of interest to the north-west of Strawberry in West Elizabeth. | Yes | No |
Landmarks of Riches Map 2 | Can be found on the roof of the tiny church in Lemoyne. | Yes | No |
Landmarks of Riches Map 3 | Can be found on one of the windows of the Mysterious Hill Home. | Yes | No |
Landmarks of Riches Map 4 | Can be found inside the tree on a small hill surrounded by a trench near a broken cannon just south of the L in Bolger Glade. | Yes | No |
Arroyo's Map | Can be looted from one of Arroyo's man at the beginning of the Joaquín Arroyo bounty hunting mission. The treasure map will disappear from the satchel after the player has completed the bounty hunting mission. | No | Yes |
Invitations[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Invitation from Ms. Hobbs | Can be obtained at the post office after completing all hunting requests, a part of the stranger mission "A Better World, A New Friend". | Yes | No |
Invitation from Jeremy Gill | Can be obtained at the post office After catching all of the legendary fish, a part of the stranger mission "A Fisher of Fish". | Yes | No |
Invitation from Francis Sinclair | Can be obtained at the post office after finding all the Rock Carvings, a part of the stranger mission "Geology for Beginners". | Yes | No |
Invitation from Deborah MacGuiness | Can be obtained at the post office after finding all the Dinosaur Bones, a part of the stranger mission "A Test of Faith". | Yes | No |
Note
- * Can be obtained by using photo mode glitch.
- ** Can be obtained by using photo mode glitch but does not show up in the player's satchel.
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Letters[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Letter to Professor Schliffen | Can be looted from a foreman - for example, the one at the Appleseed Timber Company event area.
Note: There are not any regular foreman anywhere in the game. |
- | - |
Letter from Mr. Pearson | Received after the player visits Pearson in the Rhodes general store during or after the Epilogue.
Note: Pearson has never sent the letter to player although the player have met him after epilogue. |
- | - |
Letter to the Governor | Can be looted from the Wapiti official, Mr. Pattison.
Note: Mr. Pattison is never appear in the game. |
- | - |
Letter to Mom | Can be looted from the newspaper boy in Valentine.
Note: The player can not loot the letter from the kid anymore after some patches that not allow the player to kill kids. |
- | - |
Letter from Deborah MacGuiness | Can be received in mail after sending one dinosaur bond location to Deborah MacGuiness, a part of the stranger mission "A Test of Faith".
Note: The letter was cut from the game. |
- | - |
Gala Invitation Letter | Can not be obtained. | - | - |
Notes[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Moonshiner Note | Can be found inside a nightstand in the shack at Moonstone Pond.
Note: The note glows when in eagle eye, but can not be taken. |
- | - |
H. Fischer's Homes Catalogue | Can be obtained by using save editor. | - | - |
Movie Ticket | Can be obtained by using save editor. | - | - |
Magic Lantern Ticket | Can be obtained by using save editor. | - | - |
Handbills[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Suffragette Pamphlet | Given by Dorothea Wicklow, a special character in Saint Denis.
Note: There is no information or coding for the document in the game files. |
- | - |
Scarlet Fever Handbill | Can be obtained by using save editor.
Note: The handbill is a cut handbill in the game. |
- | - |
Photographs[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
---|---|---|---|
Family Daguerrotype | Can be obtained by using save editor. | - | - |
Frank Heck Photograph | Received during the stranger mission "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman".
Note: Frank Heck was cut from the game. |
- | - |
Bounty Posters[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Bounty Poster - 'Doc' Wormwood | Can be found at Valentine sheriff's office.
Note: 'Doc' Wormwood is a cut bounty target in the game. |
- | - |
Maps[]
Name | Location | Is it possible to keep as a player's document? | Is it a missable item? |
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Ancient Indian Painting | Can not be obtained.
Note: The map was cut from the game. |
- | - |