What Year Is Hell on Wheels

AMC’s television drama series, Hell On Wheels was originally broadcast from 2011 to 2016 and was set from 1865 to 1869.

What year is it in Season 1 Hell on Wheels?

In 1865, former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) journeys to the Union Pacific Railroad’s westward construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad to seek work and vengeance on the Union soldiers who killed his wife.

What year does Season 5 of Hell on Wheels take place?

A flash-forward to 1885 shows Durant dying a lonely, poor, and forgotten man. In the present, Mickey and Durant’s kidnapping plot hits a snag, when Governor Campbell arrives with cavalry to bring the men responsible to justice.

Marcus Vance

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