
About the TV Show

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Hell on Wheels
First Air Date: November 06, 2011
First Aired on | : | 2011 |
Status | : | Ended |
Created By | : | Joe Gayton,Tony Gayton |
Networks | : | AMC |
Genres | : | Action & Adventure,Drama,Western |
Seasons/Episodes | : | 57 episodes in 5 Seasons |
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.