Former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon sets out on a quest to find his wife's killer as post-Civil War America struggles to rebuild its identity.

the rest of the cast includes Colm Meaney (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Common (John Wick: Chapter 2), and Dominique ...

The biggest draw of Hell on Wheels is its cast. In addition to Mount, the cast includes Common as Elam Ferguson, a formerly enslaved person who befriends Bohannon and helps him protect the railroad.

Massachusetts newspaper editor Samuel Bowles observed the peculiar representatives of American culture taking root in North Platte and christened what he saw Hell on Wheels. The name would stick.