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.
Keywords:
gunslinger, frontier, train, period drama, historical, railroad, wild west, historical drama, 19th century, reconstruction era, revisionist western, 1860s, american history
