Ulysses S. The Chinese laborers who worked for the Central Pacific are also accurately depicted. The other races represented in the work gangs generally looked down on the Chinese, even though they were excellent workers and exhibited better discipline than most other workers on the railroad.
Leland Stanford, a one-time California governor and Central Pacific Railroad president had doubts about hiring Chinese workers due to their small frame and communication struggles. However, seeing as most other laborers in California would only work until they received a paycheck and then leave to try their hand at gold and silver mining, Stanford was forced to hire the Chinese. They proved equal to the task. As seen in the TV series, through backbreaking work, they laid a record-setting 10 miles of track in one day.
Additionally, due to their diet and boiling water to brew tea, the Chinese were not often as sick as other workers. The latter drank water that was sometimes contaminated with cholera and other diseases.
Most everything we see in the series about Gov. Campbell is false or highly embellished, especially his treatment of women and his age. Jake Weber, who portrays Campbell in the TV series, is almost two decades older than what the real Campbell was when he assumed office in at the age of While governor, Campbell approved the first law in U. The law was enacted on December 10, Today, this date is known as Wyoming Day and is an official state holiday.
She sported a distinctive facial tattoo that she received while a prisoner of some Native Americans. Oatman was abducted by the Yavapai, along with her younger sister Mary, in after her family was massacred. She was later traded to the Mohave and released after five years. This mark is modeled almost right after the one sported by Olive Oatman.
In addition to having the same tattoo and similar abduction story, both Olive and Eva were raised in the Mormon faith. Hell On Wheels: Durant, Nebraska.
Photos Top cast Edit. Robin McLeavy Eva as Eva. Dohn Norwood Psalms as Psalms …. Common Elam Ferguson as Elam Ferguson. Kasha Kropinski Ruth as Ruth …. Duncan Ollerenshaw Mr.
Toole as Mr. Joe Gayton Tony Gayton. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of a band of Union soldiers, the killers of his wife.
This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. After the war years in the s, this undertaking connected the prospering east with the still wild west. Blood will be spilled. Lives will be lost. Men will be ruined. Did you know Edit.
Trivia Anson Mount played the video game Red Dead Redemption for about a month before his audition, and he has been often told that his character bears resemblance to John Marston, the protagonist of the game. Goofs The show has the Cheyenne and Sioux using stirrups. The plains Indians did not use stirrups.
They were, therefore, limited to operating as light cavalry. Quotes [repeated line] Cullen Bohannan : Dammit, Elam! User reviews Review. Top review. The show needed a landscape to double for Wyoming, which it found by filming on location in Calgary and other locations around Alberta, Canada. Other westerns such as Kevin Costner's Open Range or Unforgiven had previously made use of the scenery. Later seasons of Hell On Wheels were shot near Calgary's Bow River, though production was forced to shut down during filming on season 3 due to severe floods in Alberta in For season 5, the Kananaskis Country park system was used to stand in for the Sierra Nevada mountains, where the railroad had progressed to.
The showrunners would later praise Calgary for their efforts in helping to bring the series to life, and it's hard to imagine the series feeling as vast and epic without this backdrop. While Hell On Wheels ended with Cullen still among the living, it seems unlikely another season will happen.
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