Arthur Morgan on a horse with a bundled bear hide stored on the back. He's riding into the sunset through a meadow of poppies in Grizzlies East.

About Read Dead

This site represents over 900 hours of gameplay, over 5,000 pages of reading (only including primary texts), and countless hours of research and writing. If you want to refer to my research or analysis anywhere, thank you! Credit this site properly and provide a link(s) back. You may not use my screenshots (with the exceptions of: screenshots of Arthur’s journal, notes, letters, books, and anything from missions that has captions on it).

My name is Octavia (she/her); I’m a disabled, queer, white woman who holds a BA in English. Follow me on Bluesky, Twitter, or Tumblr. My Reddit is u/Latter_Literature565.

For more information on this site, see On Interpretation. Any updates to existing articles will be posted on the Change Log. To read the essays in order, visit the Table of Contents. To explore essays by topic, visit the Index. New essays are posted Wednesdays at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.