Hell on Wheels

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

• gunslinger
• brothel
• frontier
• train
• brutality
• period drama
• historical
• railroad
• wild west
• civil war veteran
• historical drama
• 19th century
• freed slave
• reconstruction era
• revisionist western
• 1860s
• american history
• violence