More allusions to Oakley Hall's Warlock in RDR2: horses, events, dialog, and more.
We’re nearing the end of the literary works that Rockstar used to create RDR2. I want to close with an essay, so I’ll be publishing that two weeks from now. After that, I'll be sharing more of my research into the game's historical and cinematic influences.
Warlock — an 1958 Western by American novelist Oakley Hall — influenced Red Dead Redemption 2 deeply. Its complex plot is loosely based on iconic elements of the incidents now known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Johnson County War. Like RDR2 itself, it reimagines and reworks its source material. Tombstone, Arizona, becomes Warlock, a frontier town plagued by random acts of violence: a group of men associated with local rancher Abe McQuown shoot the place up, rustle cattle, and rob stagecoaches. Because the state governor, General Peach, is senile, he hasn't issued Warlock a town patent, which means the townspeople have no authority to hire a…
