When we last saw Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), the Confederate veteran of the Civil War turned railroad boss man,…

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Cast
Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)Colm Meaney (Thomas 'Doc' Durant)Robin McLeavy (Eva)Phil Burke (Mickey McGinnes)Christopher Heyerdahl (The Swede)Dohn Norwood (Psalms)Common (Elam Ferguson)Kasha Kropinski (Ruth)Ben Esler (Sean McGinnes)Jennifer Ferrin (Louise Ellison)Dominique McElligott (Lily Bell)Eddie Spears (Joseph Black Moon)Tom Noonan (Reverend Nathaniel Cole)Duncan Ollerenshaw (Mr. Toole)David Wilson Barnes (Martin Delaney)Tayden Marks (Ezra Dutson)Jake Weber (John Campbell)Chelah Horsdal (Maggie Palmer)
Creators
Joe Gayton, Tony Gayton
Synopsis
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 1860s, this undertaking connected the prospering east with the still wild west.
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