Red Dead Redemption 2

Chapter 2

Horseshoe Overlook

"Polite Society, Valentine Style"

Encounter – Extortionists

"American Dreams"

Newspaper (New Hanover Gazette 27)

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  • Barnard, H. (1954). Rutherford B. Hayes, and his America. Bobbs-Merrill.
  • Burdeos, R. L. (2008). Filipinos in the U.S. Navy & Coast Guard During the Vietnam War. AuthorHouse.
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  • Hays, J. N. (2005). Epidemics and pandemics: Their impacts on human history. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO.
  • Hill, J. E. (1965). El Chamizal: A Century-Old Boundary Dispute. Geographical Review, 55(4), 510–522. https://doi.org/10.2307/212412
  • Hoogenboom, A. A. (1995). Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and president. University Press of Kansas.
  • Katz, F. (1991). The Liberal Republic and the Porfiriato, 1867–1910. In L. Bethell (Ed.), Mexico since Independence (pp. 49–124). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511626050.003
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  • Watchman and Southron. (1899). The Bubonic Plague. The Watchman and Southron, XVIII(39), 1.

Encounter – Mickey

Encounter – Opium couple

Encounter – Public hanging

Encounter – Gun duel

"The Noblest of Men, and a Woman"

"Good, Honest, Snake Oil"

Bounty hunting (Valentine)

  • BBC. (2002, September 19). Serial killer sisters murdered relatives. BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2269613.stm
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  • Chicago Tribune. (1922b, November 18). Klimek Poison Charges Ready for Grand Jury. Chicago Tribune, 3.
  • Chicago Tribune. (1922c, November 19). Klimek Poison List is Twenty; Arrest 1 More. Chicago Tribune, 1.
  • Chicago Tribune. (1922d, November 19). Klimek Poison List Put at 20; Arrest One More. Chicago Tribune, 2.
  • Chicago Tribune. (1922e, November 20). Ask Indictments Today in Klimek Poisoning Cases. Chicago Tribune, 6.
  • Chicago Tribune. (1936, November 21). Wife Who Killed 3d Husband Dies in Dwight Prison. Chicago Tribune, 25.
  • Forbes, G. (1923a, March 9). How Mrs. Klimek Jested of Death of Husband Told. Chicago Tribune, 7.
  • Forbes, G. (1923b, March 14). Life in Prison for Woman as Arch Poisoner. Chicago Tribune, 1.
  • Kavanagh, M. (1928). The criminal and his allies. The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
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  • University of Liverpool. (2002, November). Arsenic and the Black Widows. Precint. https://web.archive.org/web/20101124221713/http://www.liv.ac.uk/precinct/Oct2002/6.html

"Americans at Rest"

Encounter – Jon

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  • Nunpa, C. (2020). The Great Evil: Christianity, the Bible, and the Native American Genocide. See Sharp Press. https://amzn.to/4cwKSUL
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Encounter – Domestic violence

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  • Bloch, R. H. (2007b). The American Revolution, Wife Beating, and the Emergent Value of Privacy. Early American Studies, 5(2), 223–251.
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  • Felter, E., & Daniels, C. R. (1997). A History of the State’s Response to Domestic Violence. In Feminists Negotiate the State: The Politics of Domestic Violence (pp. 5–20). University Press of America.
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  • Hendrik Hartog. (2000). Man and Wife in America. Harvard University Press.
  • Kleinberg, S. J. (1999). Women in the United States, 1830-1945. Rutgers University Press.
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  • Ortiz, A. (2018). Invisible Bars: Adapting the Crime of False Imprisonment to Better Address Coercive Control and Domestic Violence in Tennessee. Vanderbilt Law Review, 71(2), 681.
  • Pleck, E. (2012). Wife Beating in Nineteenth-Century America. In Volume 2 Household Constitution and Family Relationships (pp. 189–203). K. G. Saur. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110970197.189/html
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Encounter – Killer sex worker

"The First Shall Be Last"

"Who is Not Without Sin"

"Smoking and Other Hobbies"

"All That Glitters"

"Exit Pursued by a Bruised Ego"

"Paying a Social Call"

"Money Lending and Other Sins"

"A Quiet Time"

"We Loved Once and True"

"The Spines of America"

"Geology for Beginners"

"Arcadia for Amateurs"

Encounter – Strawberry conman

Encounter – Strawberry mayor

"Blessed Are the Meek?"

Encounter – Logging camp

  • Benson, T. (1999). Timberframe: The Art and Craft of the Post-and-Beam Home. Taunton Press. https://amzn.to/4cAGAvI
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  • Sandilands, J. (1977). Western Canadian dictionary and phrase book. University of Alberta Press.

"A Fisher of Men"

"A Fisher of Fish"

See Epilogue 2

"Pouring Forth Oil"

Newspaper (New Hanover Gazette 28)

  • Appleyard, B. (2022). The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World. Pegasus Books.
  • Berard, A. (2017). Water tossing boulders: How a family of Chinese immigrants led the first fight to desegregate schools in the Jim Crow South. Beacon Press.
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  • Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. (1898, March 1). Public Opinion. The Times-Democrat, 4.
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  • San Francisco Chronicle. (1899, May 12). General H. G. Otis Praises His Troops. San Francisco Chronicle, 1.
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"Go Hunting with Charles"

"To the Ends of the Earth"

"A Test of Faith"

"An American Pastoral Scene"

"The Sheep and the Goats"

Newspaper (New Hanover Gazette 29)

"A Strange Kindness"

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