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.
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Anson Mount
Cullen Bohannan
Colm Meaney
Thomas 'Doc' Durant
Robin McLeavy
Eva
Christopher Heyerdahl
The Swede
Phil Burke
Mickey McGinnes
Tim Guinee
Collis Huntington
Angela Zhou
Mei
Byron Mann
Chang
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10 episodes • 2011Avg: 7.8Valley of Despair
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pilot | Nov 6, 2011 | 6.9 |
| 2 | Immoral Mathematics | Nov 13, 2011 | 8.0 |
| 3 | A New Birth of Freedom | Nov 20, 2011 | 7.9 |
| 4 | Jamais je ne t'oublierai | Nov 27, 2011 | 7.9 |
| 5 | Bread and Circuses | Dec 4, 2011 | 7.9 |
| 6 | Pride, Pomp and Circumstance | Dec 11, 2011 | 7.9 |
| 7 | Revelations | Dec 18, 2011 | 8.3 |
| 8 | Derailed | Jan 1, 2012 | 8.1 |
| 9 | Timshel | Jan 8, 2012 | 6.8 |
| 10 | God of Chaos | Jan 15, 2012 | 8.3 |
10 episodes • 2012Avg: 8.4Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viva La Mexico | Aug 12, 2012 | 8.1 |
| 2 | Durant, Nebraska | Aug 19, 2012 | 8.3 |
| 3 | Slaughterhouse | Aug 26, 2012 | 8.4 |
| 4 | Scabs | Sep 2, 2012 | 8.0 |
| 5 | The Railroad Job | Sep 9, 2012 | 9.0 |
| 6 | Purged Away with Blood | Sep 16, 2012 | 8.4 |
| 7 | The White Spirit | Sep 23, 2012 | 8.3 |
| 8 | The Lord's Day | Sep 30, 2012 | 8.3 |
| 9 | Blood Moon | Oct 7, 2012 | 8.5 |
| 10 | Blood Moon Rising | Oct 7, 2012 | 8.9 |
10 episodes • 2013Avg: 8.3
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Bad Wolf | Aug 10, 2013 | 8.1 |
| 2 | Eminent Domain | Aug 10, 2013 | 8.5 |
| 3 | Range War | Aug 17, 2013 | 8.1 |
| 4 | The Game | Aug 24, 2013 | 8.3 |
| 5 | Searchers | Aug 31, 2013 | 7.4 |
| 6 | One Less Mule | Sep 7, 2013 | 8.8 |
| 7 | Cholera | Sep 14, 2013 | 8.1 |
| 8 | It Happened in Boston | Sep 21, 2013 | 8.3 |
| 9 | Fathers and Sins | Sep 28, 2013 | 8.5 |
| 10 | Get Behind the Mule | Oct 5, 2013 | 8.7 |
13 episodes • 2014Avg: 8.3
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Elusive Eden | Aug 2, 2014 | 8.0 |
| 2 | Escape from the Garden | Aug 9, 2014 | 8.8 |
| 3 | Chicken Hill | Aug 16, 2014 | 8.3 |
| 4 | Reckoning | Aug 23, 2014 | 8.1 |
| 5 | Life's a Mystery | Aug 30, 2014 | 8.6 |
| 6 | Bear Man | Sep 6, 2014 | 7.1 |
| 7 | Elam Ferguson | Sep 13, 2014 | 9.0 |
| 8 | Under Color of Law | Sep 20, 2014 | 8.1 |
| 9 | Two Trains | Sep 27, 2014 | 8.5 |
| 10 | Return to Hell | Oct 4, 2014 | 9.1 |
| 11 | Bleeding Kansas | Nov 8, 2014 | 8.2 |
| 12 | Thirteen Steps | Nov 15, 2014 | 8.2 |
| 13 | Further West | Nov 22, 2014 | 8.2 |
14 episodes • 2015Avg: 8.2
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinatown | Jul 18, 2015 | 8.5 |
| 2 | Mei Mei | Jul 25, 2015 | 7.3 |
| 3 | White Justice | Aug 1, 2015 | 8.3 |
| 4 | Struck | Aug 8, 2015 | 8.1 |
| 5 | Elixir of Life | Aug 15, 2015 | 8.3 |
| 6 | Hungry Ghosts | Aug 22, 2015 | 7.9 |
| 7 | False Prophets | Aug 29, 2015 | 8.9 |
| 8 | Two Soldiers | Jun 11, 2016 | 8.8 |
| 9 | Return to the Garden | Jun 18, 2016 | 8.1 |
| 10 | 61 Degrees | Jun 25, 2016 | 8.3 |
| 11 | Gambit | Jul 2, 2016 | 8.1 |
| 12 | Any Sum Within Reason | Jul 9, 2016 | 7.6 |
| 13 | Railroad Men | Jul 16, 2016 | 8.4 |
| 14 | Done | Jul 23, 2016 | 8.2 |
