589
00:00:09,764 --> 00:00:12,532
I see why they call this place
"Hell On Wheels."
590
00:00:12,566 --> 00:00:14,134
Rough men, loose women,
591
00:00:14,168 --> 00:00:16,302
whiskey, sin, and guns.
592
00:00:16,337 --> 00:00:19,105
It ain't
a church social, ma'am.
593
00:00:19,140 --> 00:00:20,740
I'm not sure your bosses
at Credit Mobilier
594
00:00:20,775 --> 00:00:23,777
would want me to put that
in the newspaper.
595
00:00:23,811 --> 00:00:26,412
What is it that holds you to
this enterprise, Mr. Bohannon?
596
00:00:26,447 --> 00:00:27,714
Every piece of steel we lay
597
00:00:27,748 --> 00:00:29,716
puts us closer
to somewheres else.
598
00:00:29,750 --> 00:00:31,951
That's about all I can say.
599
00:00:31,986 --> 00:00:36,089
So it's more personal
than just laying rail.
600
00:00:36,123 --> 00:00:39,659
You're the writer.
Ho!
601
00:00:39,693 --> 00:00:41,994
Mr. Bohannon,
people of this country
602
00:00:42,029 --> 00:00:45,231
believe the railroad is robbing
the National Treasury.
603
00:00:45,265 --> 00:00:47,600
My job is to dissuade my readers
of that notion.
604
00:00:47,634 --> 00:00:50,670
Unfortunately,
our brief interview
605
00:00:50,704 --> 00:00:52,405
was not enough to dissuade me.
606
00:00:52,439 --> 00:00:55,174
And it ain't my job
to fix what people think.
607
00:00:55,208 --> 00:00:56,942
In fact, it is.
608
00:00:56,977 --> 00:00:59,278
You are the face of the
Transcontinental Railroad now.
609
00:00:59,312 --> 00:01:02,014
And either this is
a brave and noble endeavor,
610
00:01:02,048 --> 00:01:04,183
or it's Sodom and Gomorrah.
611
00:01:04,217 --> 00:01:07,786
Which is it?
612
00:01:07,821 --> 00:01:09,521
The sooner you help me
accurately report
613
00:01:09,556 --> 00:01:11,023
what's going on out here,
the sooner I can leave
614
00:01:11,057 --> 00:01:13,759
and make both our lives
less miserable.
615
00:01:13,793 --> 00:01:16,028
And for the record,
I covered the war '63 to '65.
616
00:01:16,062 --> 00:01:18,497
I know the difference between
hell and a church social.
617
00:01:18,531 --> 00:01:21,266
What more you need to see?
618
00:01:21,301 --> 00:01:25,838
Everything.
619
00:01:25,872 --> 00:01:28,173
Come on then.
620
00:01:28,207 --> 00:01:30,442
♪ That I ever did see
♪ that I ever did see
621
00:01:30,476 --> 00:01:32,844
♪ she was born
in Jackson, baby ♪
622
00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:34,346
♪ raised in New Orleans
623
00:01:34,380 --> 00:01:36,882
grading crews work ahead
of the tie-layers.
624
00:01:36,916 --> 00:01:39,351
100 miles west,
surveyors lay out the route.
625
00:01:39,385 --> 00:01:41,820
- How many men do you have?
- Near 3,000.
626
00:01:41,854 --> 00:01:43,989
Work six days a week,
sunup, sundown.
627
00:01:44,023 --> 00:01:47,025
$1.50 a day.
Them's good wages.
628
00:01:47,059 --> 00:01:49,027
How many miles do you make
a day?
629
00:01:49,061 --> 00:01:52,330
Two now,
weather and Indians permittin'.
630
00:01:55,167 --> 00:01:57,068
Rust eaters lay the rails.
631
00:01:57,103 --> 00:01:59,637
Walking boss makes sure
the gauge is right.
632
00:01:59,672 --> 00:02:03,074
Spiker teams secure the rails
to the ground.
633
00:02:03,108 --> 00:02:05,376
Fish-plates tie them together.
634
00:02:05,411 --> 00:02:07,412
3 swings of the hammer
per spike,
635
00:02:07,446 --> 00:02:11,082
10 spikes per rail,
400 rails to a mile,
636
00:02:11,116 --> 00:02:14,118
1,500 miles to Sacramento.
637
00:02:16,622 --> 00:02:18,189
Do you really believe
you can win the race
638
00:02:18,223 --> 00:02:19,891
against the Central Pacific
to build this road?
639
00:02:19,925 --> 00:02:21,426
Wouldn't be here otherwise.
640
00:02:21,460 --> 00:02:22,994
You think you can do it
641
00:02:23,028 --> 00:02:24,529
without Thomas Durant's
political connections?
642
00:02:24,563 --> 00:02:26,731
Without his money,
his ego to drive it on?
643
00:02:26,765 --> 00:02:30,268
Well, here I stand,
and here he don't.
644
00:02:30,302 --> 00:02:34,705
- Excuse me.
- One more question.
645
00:02:34,740 --> 00:02:37,475
Why you?
646
00:02:47,452 --> 00:02:50,020
Each car sleeps 60 men.
647
00:02:50,055 --> 00:02:53,023
Keeps them out of the weather
and close to the work.
648
00:02:53,058 --> 00:02:56,060
Lady coming through.
649
00:02:59,931 --> 00:03:02,199
Who designed these cars?
650
00:03:02,233 --> 00:03:03,467
Mostly me.
651
00:03:06,271 --> 00:03:09,807
Yeah, I'm still working out
the ventilation.
652
00:03:09,841 --> 00:03:11,542
Mmhmm.
653
00:03:11,576 --> 00:03:13,143
Two weeks ago, these men
were starving, out of work,
654
00:03:13,177 --> 00:03:15,112
straight off the boats
in New York.
655
00:03:15,146 --> 00:03:16,480
My newspaper has reported
Irish labor bosses
656
00:03:16,514 --> 00:03:18,148
conscripting them out here
for a fee.
657
00:03:18,182 --> 00:03:20,984
How is that any different
from indentured servitude?
658
00:03:21,019 --> 00:03:23,053
Union Pacific offers
free rail passage
659
00:03:23,087 --> 00:03:25,088
and a week's wages on arrival.
660
00:03:25,123 --> 00:03:26,790
We got more applicants
than we got work.
661
00:03:26,824 --> 00:03:28,425
Really?
662
00:03:28,459 --> 00:03:31,161
Your idea again?
663
00:03:31,195 --> 00:03:35,932
Didn't much care for the labor
bosses I met in New York.
664
00:03:47,211 --> 00:03:48,511
New cemetery runs
from the sawmill
665
00:03:48,546 --> 00:03:50,480
up to the Ridge line.
666
00:03:50,514 --> 00:03:52,248
Ain't a day goes by
we don't put some one or two
667
00:03:52,283 --> 00:03:57,020
in the ground up there,
most from railroad mishaps.
668
00:03:57,054 --> 00:03:59,288
And the others?
669
00:03:59,323 --> 00:04:03,693
Spare time mishaps.
670
00:04:03,727 --> 00:04:08,531
Is that where the fair-haired
maiden of the west is buried?
671
00:04:11,635 --> 00:04:14,937
No, she's buried in
a wild flower field she liked.
672
00:04:14,972 --> 00:04:17,606
- Did you know her?
- A bit.
673
00:04:17,641 --> 00:04:19,041
Well, you must've known her
better than that
674
00:04:19,076 --> 00:04:21,444
if you knew where she wanted
to be buried.
675
00:04:21,478 --> 00:04:22,712
Mrs. Bell should've left
Hell On Wheels
676
00:04:22,746 --> 00:04:24,613
when she had the chance.
677
00:04:24,648 --> 00:04:27,049
This ain't no place for a lady,
678
00:04:27,083 --> 00:04:30,386
less'n she's a whore.
679
00:04:30,420 --> 00:04:32,388
I can assure you,
Mr. Bohannon,
680
00:04:32,422 --> 00:04:35,124
I am neither a lady
nor a whore.
681
00:04:35,158 --> 00:04:36,692
Figured you'd have to be
a little bit of both
682
00:04:36,726 --> 00:04:38,227
being a newspaper woman.
683
00:04:38,261 --> 00:04:40,129
Get outta here.
684
00:04:40,163 --> 00:04:42,464
Huh.
685
00:04:42,499 --> 00:04:43,699
You figured wrong.
686
00:04:48,538 --> 00:04:50,973
You Bohannon?
687
00:04:51,007 --> 00:04:53,575
I am.
688
00:04:55,745 --> 00:04:57,412
Keep your railroad
off my property.
689
00:04:57,447 --> 00:05:00,449
I won't tell you again.
694
00:06:33,411 --> 00:06:35,179
Howdy.
695
00:06:35,213 --> 00:06:37,347
Who are you?
696
00:06:37,382 --> 00:06:38,982
You come pawin' around
for turmoil,
697
00:06:39,017 --> 00:06:40,050
you best think twice, friend.
698
00:06:40,084 --> 00:06:42,486
This is my office.
699
00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,888
Mr. Ferguson.
700
00:06:44,922 --> 00:06:47,457
Dick Barlow.
Just arrived from Omaha.
701
00:06:47,492 --> 00:06:51,027
Didn't Mr. Bohannon tell you
to expect me?
702
00:06:51,062 --> 00:06:54,030
No.
703
00:06:54,065 --> 00:06:56,333
What you want in here?
704
00:06:56,367 --> 00:06:58,501
Well, I can tell by looking,
you ain't short a hat size,
705
00:06:58,536 --> 00:07:00,870
so I guess you know.
706
00:07:00,905 --> 00:07:03,540
I'm new Chief
of Railroad Police.
707
00:07:03,574 --> 00:07:07,310
You work for me now.
708
00:07:07,345 --> 00:07:08,578
Coffee?
709
00:07:08,612 --> 00:07:10,480
My grandpap taught me
how to make it.
710
00:07:10,514 --> 00:07:12,582
The trick is not to over-boil.
711
00:07:12,616 --> 00:07:16,352
And, of course, the sock.
712
00:07:16,387 --> 00:07:17,887
Now, uh, I use a clean one.
713
00:07:17,921 --> 00:07:20,890
But pap swore
the riper the sock,
714
00:07:20,924 --> 00:07:23,259
the richer the brew.
715
00:07:23,293 --> 00:07:26,496
I like a dollop of fresh cream
in mine,
716
00:07:26,530 --> 00:07:29,499
but it ain't real regular
I come across it.
717
00:07:29,533 --> 00:07:33,836
And kicking don't get you
nowhere less'n you're a mule.
718
00:07:33,871 --> 00:07:37,940
So mostly,
I just take mine black.
719
00:07:37,975 --> 00:07:39,742
Mr. Bohannon
ain't said nothing
720
00:07:39,776 --> 00:07:43,346
about me working for nobody.
721
00:07:43,380 --> 00:07:45,881
Well, it ain't no good cold now.
722
00:07:45,916 --> 00:07:48,918
Go on.
723
00:07:54,124 --> 00:07:58,060
That's it.
724
00:07:58,094 --> 00:07:59,795
Mm.
725
00:07:59,829 --> 00:08:02,197
That'll get your hair
out of the butter every time.
726
00:08:18,081 --> 00:08:19,715
Don't want no trouble.
727
00:08:19,749 --> 00:08:23,051
- Came to talk.
- What about?
728
00:08:23,086 --> 00:08:25,787
Think you know.
729
00:08:36,199 --> 00:08:38,967
Come ahead.
730
00:08:48,477 --> 00:08:50,497
You survive the war?
731
00:08:52,948 --> 00:08:54,849
- I did.
- You a Johnny Reb?
732
00:08:54,884 --> 00:08:58,119
Yes, sir.
Yeah, I was.
733
00:09:03,192 --> 00:09:04,859
So you know a little
about what it's like,
734
00:09:04,893 --> 00:09:08,496
somebody comes,
takes your land.
735
00:09:08,530 --> 00:09:12,166
Everything I had's been took.
736
00:09:12,201 --> 00:09:14,936
Indians killed my father
and my brother,
737
00:09:14,970 --> 00:09:17,004
his wives and kids.
738
00:09:17,039 --> 00:09:20,274
My wives and I,
we buried 'em on the same hill
739
00:09:20,309 --> 00:09:23,711
I pulled our surveyor stakes
out of.
740
00:09:23,745 --> 00:09:25,946
My family bled for this land,
Mr. Bohannon,
741
00:09:25,981 --> 00:09:30,551
carved this place out
of a wilderness nobody wanted.
742
00:09:33,021 --> 00:09:35,856
It is
by Heavenly Father's decree
743
00:09:35,891 --> 00:09:39,193
that we are here,
and it shall be by His will,
744
00:09:39,227 --> 00:09:41,161
not yours, that we leave.
745
00:09:41,196 --> 00:09:44,999
Even God can't stop
the railroad, Mr. Hatch.
746
00:09:47,902 --> 00:09:49,970
It would destroy all we built,
747
00:09:50,005 --> 00:09:53,040
take away our home.
748
00:09:53,074 --> 00:09:54,842
Mm.
749
00:09:54,876 --> 00:09:57,211
You have my word.
750
00:09:57,245 --> 00:09:58,912
You'll get a square deal.
751
00:09:58,947 --> 00:10:00,981
Now, now,
that's the best I can do.
752
00:10:01,015 --> 00:10:03,717
- Could go around.
- Boy.
753
00:10:03,751 --> 00:10:06,086
Ain't nothin' but wilderness
and Lamonites out here, father.
754
00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,455
I said that's enough.
755
00:10:20,635 --> 00:10:23,203
You will excuse
my son's manners.
756
00:10:23,237 --> 00:10:27,207
He's got some growing
still to do.
757
00:10:38,452 --> 00:10:43,122
Tell you what.
Um...
758
00:10:43,157 --> 00:10:45,792
Let me see if my surveyors
can't find a way around.
759
00:10:45,826 --> 00:10:48,695
Now, that...
that's not a promise.
760
00:10:48,729 --> 00:10:50,797
Ift can't be done,
you'll still have to move.
761
00:10:50,831 --> 00:10:55,935
But it don't cost nothing
to try.
762
00:10:59,139 --> 00:11:02,542
Well, a journey
through these lands
763
00:11:02,576 --> 00:11:06,245
at this hour is a foolish one,
Mr. Bohannon.
764
00:11:06,279 --> 00:11:09,315
You are welcome to stay
till morning.
765
00:11:09,349 --> 00:11:13,085
Much obliged.
766
00:12:16,813 --> 00:12:19,114
Seen me a Mormon man
killed once.
767
00:12:19,148 --> 00:12:21,616
Liberty, Missouri...
768
00:12:21,951 --> 00:12:23,785
During the war.
769
00:12:23,819 --> 00:12:26,587
As if them white folk didn't
have enough to fight about,
770
00:12:26,622 --> 00:12:29,221
county sheriff run him through
with a sword
771
00:12:29,341 --> 00:12:30,858
on account of him
being a "Palgemist."
772
00:12:38,216 --> 00:12:41,831
Yep, they didn't like them
no "Palgemists"
773
00:12:41,951 --> 00:12:42,938
in Liberty, Missouri.
774
00:12:43,058 --> 00:12:44,722
Like they Mormons
didn't like them no negroes.
775
00:12:49,227 --> 00:12:51,395
Yeah.
They a nasty bunch.
776
00:12:53,932 --> 00:12:56,367
I think
you mean "polygamist."
777
00:12:56,401 --> 00:12:58,802
What'd I say?
778
00:12:58,837 --> 00:13:01,238
"Palgemists."
779
00:13:01,272 --> 00:13:02,539
Well, I knew it was
something like that.
780
00:13:02,574 --> 00:13:04,741
Why a man gotta get
hisself killed
781
00:13:04,776 --> 00:13:06,410
over being a polygamist?
782
00:13:06,444 --> 00:13:08,045
It's the custom
of having more than one wife
783
00:13:08,079 --> 00:13:09,413
at the same time.
784
00:13:09,447 --> 00:13:11,348
More than one wife, you say?
785
00:13:11,382 --> 00:13:13,316
At the same time?
786
00:13:13,351 --> 00:13:16,286
Well, damn.
No wonder they nasty.
787
00:13:22,026 --> 00:13:24,427
Sand, mud, lime.
788
00:13:24,462 --> 00:13:26,763
Soil like that no good
for the grade, boss.
789
00:13:26,797 --> 00:13:29,766
Take a lot of lumber
to build it.
790
00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,701
Yeah, rock wall be better,
but that take time
791
00:13:31,736 --> 00:13:33,837
and rock, which we ain't got.
792
00:13:33,871 --> 00:13:36,372
I've surveyed several routes
through here, Mr. Bohannon.
793
00:13:36,407 --> 00:13:39,175
Sand hills stretch at least
a hundred miles to the north.
794
00:13:39,210 --> 00:13:40,910
We'd have to go South
to get around that farm.
795
00:13:40,945 --> 00:13:43,179
- How far?
- 40 mile, maybe more.
796
00:13:43,214 --> 00:13:45,081
40 mile'll put us behind
schedule by five weeks.
797
00:13:45,115 --> 00:13:48,117
Yes, sir.
798
00:14:11,141 --> 00:14:13,042
I met the new police chief.
799
00:14:13,076 --> 00:14:18,714
You ain't happy,
track runs both ways.
800
00:14:23,019 --> 00:14:25,487
Where's the livestock?
It's complicated.
801
00:14:25,522 --> 00:14:26,789
Tell you
what's complicated, son.
802
00:14:26,823 --> 00:14:29,158
3,000 hungry men.
803
00:14:29,192 --> 00:14:30,926
What I mean is
804
00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,296
I've been on the job
for two days.
805
00:14:34,330 --> 00:14:36,465
And deciphering these books
is quite the task.
806
00:14:36,499 --> 00:14:38,467
Near as I can tell,
807
00:14:38,501 --> 00:14:40,335
Mr. Durant formed
several companies
808
00:14:40,370 --> 00:14:43,405
to supply livestock
to the railroad.
809
00:14:43,439 --> 00:14:45,574
Now that he's departed,
810
00:14:45,608 --> 00:14:49,645
the contracts
have been canceled.
811
00:14:49,679 --> 00:14:51,747
Then find some other
damn place, Sean.
812
00:14:51,781 --> 00:14:53,582
Council Bluffs, Denver,
shit, Chicago...
813
00:14:53,616 --> 00:14:57,519
I would, um, but it seems
that Mr. Durant has,
814
00:14:57,553 --> 00:15:00,188
in addition to canceling
our contracts
815
00:15:00,223 --> 00:15:02,123
with his companies,
816
00:15:02,158 --> 00:15:05,620
cornered the market on livestock
in Omaha as well.
817
00:15:05,740 --> 00:15:07,095
Shit!
818
00:15:07,129 --> 00:15:08,997
Should've killed that son of
a bitch when I had the chance.
819
00:15:09,031 --> 00:15:12,167
May I quote you on that,
Mr. Bohannon?
820
00:15:16,072 --> 00:15:17,972
You don't say nothing to her
about railroad business.
821
00:15:18,007 --> 00:15:20,875
- You hear me?
- Yes, sir.
822
00:15:20,910 --> 00:15:24,612
- Still here?
- Missed my train.
823
00:15:24,647 --> 00:15:27,882
Don't say I didn't warn you.
824
00:15:34,656 --> 00:15:36,324
Oh.
825
00:15:36,358 --> 00:15:39,460
We missed you at services
this morning, Mr. Bohannon.
826
00:15:42,664 --> 00:15:46,033
Was there something
I can help you with?
827
00:15:46,068 --> 00:15:49,103
Thought I'd look in is all.
828
00:15:50,339 --> 00:15:53,374
You gave us a good place...
829
00:15:53,408 --> 00:15:59,246
High, dry ground
upwind of the slaughterhouse.
830
00:15:59,281 --> 00:16:02,149
- Thank you.
- It's good.
831
00:16:02,184 --> 00:16:06,787
It's good for the men, I mean.
832
00:16:09,524 --> 00:16:11,392
And you?
833
00:16:15,764 --> 00:16:18,399
Oh.
Sorry.
834
00:16:18,433 --> 00:16:20,534
Uh...
835
00:16:20,568 --> 00:16:23,537
Railroad has to move a family
of homesteaders off their land.
836
00:16:23,571 --> 00:16:27,874
They're digging in.
And, uh, they're Mormon.
837
00:16:27,909 --> 00:16:29,209
I wonder if you've had
any cause to know
838
00:16:29,243 --> 00:16:32,412
what they might be like
as people.
839
00:16:32,447 --> 00:16:34,114
The Latter Day Saints are not
840
00:16:34,148 --> 00:16:36,950
a legitimate Church of Christ.
841
00:16:36,984 --> 00:16:39,019
They treat their women
as slaves.
842
00:16:39,053 --> 00:16:41,021
They take child brides.
843
00:16:41,055 --> 00:16:42,689
They're a violent people.
844
00:16:42,723 --> 00:16:44,724
They'll fight then, you think?
845
00:16:44,759 --> 00:16:47,360
It has been their way.
Yes.
846
00:16:47,395 --> 00:16:49,629
They got children with 'em.
847
00:16:49,664 --> 00:16:51,598
Then you'll find another way.
848
00:16:51,632 --> 00:16:54,401
By God's Grace.
849
00:16:54,435 --> 00:16:59,372
God's been slack
with the Grace of late.
850
00:16:59,407 --> 00:17:03,476
Then show them yours,
Mr. Bohannon.
851
00:17:08,015 --> 00:17:11,818
What I'm proposing is
a major new commercial hub,
852
00:17:11,852 --> 00:17:15,221
the most important railroad city
in the United States.
853
00:17:15,255 --> 00:17:20,827
And it will be right here
in your backyard.
854
00:17:20,861 --> 00:17:24,463
That is literally my backyard.
855
00:17:24,498 --> 00:17:28,401
You see that pretty confluence
of good sweet-water streams?
856
00:17:28,435 --> 00:17:31,904
Well, it ain't much,
but it's on my land.
857
00:17:31,939 --> 00:17:34,807
My husband left me all of this
when he passed in '62.
858
00:17:34,841 --> 00:17:37,510
Well, it may be
your land now, madam.
859
00:17:37,544 --> 00:17:39,578
But the Union Pacific Railroad
860
00:17:39,613 --> 00:17:41,280
will reach it before the year
is out.
861
00:17:41,314 --> 00:17:44,283
And, through eminent domain,
they will claim it.
862
00:17:44,317 --> 00:17:45,584
That's against the law.
863
00:17:45,619 --> 00:17:46,752
It is the law.
864
00:17:46,786 --> 00:17:48,420
And by law,
865
00:17:48,455 --> 00:17:50,756
the Union Pacific
is compelled to offer you
866
00:17:50,790 --> 00:17:52,825
a fair market price
for your land,
867
00:17:52,859 --> 00:17:54,193
currently $1.50 an acre.
868
00:17:55,962 --> 00:17:58,797
- I'd never sell for that.
- And you won't have to.
869
00:17:58,832 --> 00:18:00,666
Because as a representative
870
00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:03,802
and major stockholder
of Credit Mobilier,
871
00:18:03,837 --> 00:18:07,539
I am prepared
to offer you $100 per acre,
872
00:18:07,574 --> 00:18:12,444
thus waiving eminent domain.
873
00:18:12,478 --> 00:18:15,314
- What's the rub?
- Ah, well...
874
00:18:15,348 --> 00:18:18,383
In order to waive
eminent domain,
875
00:18:18,418 --> 00:18:21,553
we must build
a railroad terminus
876
00:18:21,587 --> 00:18:23,388
and a town on the property,
877
00:18:23,422 --> 00:18:25,290
which we will.
878
00:18:25,324 --> 00:18:27,325
Every pound of beef,
every ton of ore,
879
00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:30,395
every fruit, vegetable,
every bale of hay
880
00:18:30,429 --> 00:18:33,164
from either side
of the Mississippi
881
00:18:33,199 --> 00:18:36,634
must ship through our town.
882
00:18:36,669 --> 00:18:40,004
You will become rich
beyond your wildest dreams.
883
00:18:40,039 --> 00:18:41,339
Weren't you in jail
just a month ago?
884
00:18:41,373 --> 00:18:42,907
- Yes.
- And you're broke,
885
00:18:42,942 --> 00:18:43,908
according to the newspapers.
886
00:18:43,943 --> 00:18:45,243
Flat broke.
887
00:18:45,277 --> 00:18:46,377
Well, how do you expect
to pay us
888
00:18:46,412 --> 00:18:47,579
for our property then?
889
00:18:47,613 --> 00:18:50,048
From construction funds
890
00:18:50,082 --> 00:18:52,684
advanced to me
by the Union Pacific Railroad.
891
00:18:52,718 --> 00:18:55,019
You were kicked off
Union Pacific for stealing.
892
00:18:55,054 --> 00:18:57,555
Union Pacific, Credit Mobilier,
893
00:18:57,589 --> 00:19:00,858
different pockets
to the same pair of pants.
894
00:19:00,893 --> 00:19:03,427
When the judge understood that,
I was released.
895
00:19:03,462 --> 00:19:05,363
You're in Omaha now, New York.
896
00:19:05,397 --> 00:19:06,931
Money won't buy you
judges here.
897
00:19:06,965 --> 00:19:11,068
Opportunity is a powerful
elixir, Mrs. Palmer.
898
00:19:11,103 --> 00:19:12,937
Right.
899
00:19:12,971 --> 00:19:15,873
So you're borrowing money
you don't have
900
00:19:15,907 --> 00:19:17,708
from a company
you don't work for
901
00:19:17,743 --> 00:19:19,376
to buy property
you can't afford
902
00:19:19,411 --> 00:19:21,345
to build a city
that doesn't exist.
903
00:19:21,379 --> 00:19:22,746
Spearheading, as it were.
904
00:19:22,781 --> 00:19:25,783
A new way of doing business
in America.
905
00:19:33,425 --> 00:19:35,359
If all difficulties were known
906
00:19:35,393 --> 00:19:38,362
at the outset of a long journey,
Mr. McGinnis,
907
00:19:38,396 --> 00:19:42,399
few of us would ever
embark at all.
908
00:19:45,236 --> 00:19:48,071
A whiskey for my young friend.
909
00:19:52,343 --> 00:19:54,778
Have you got the money?
910
00:20:01,419 --> 00:20:04,054
I'm very uneasy about this.
911
00:20:04,088 --> 00:20:05,889
If Mr. Bohannon finds out...
912
00:20:05,923 --> 00:20:08,058
You are doing nothing wrong.
913
00:20:08,092 --> 00:20:10,260
You are managing
railroad funds,
914
00:20:10,294 --> 00:20:14,597
and you are managing them well.
915
00:20:14,632 --> 00:20:17,634
Have you got
something else for me?
916
00:20:22,506 --> 00:20:26,276
This is the, uh,
telegraph routing code
917
00:20:26,310 --> 00:20:29,145
for the Union Pacific.
918
00:20:29,179 --> 00:20:30,947
You'll be able to eavesdrop
919
00:20:30,981 --> 00:20:33,483
on all of Mr. Bohannon's
business.
920
00:20:33,517 --> 00:20:36,152
Excellent.
921
00:20:42,159 --> 00:20:44,594
Will you be paying
me today, Mr. Durant?
922
00:20:44,628 --> 00:20:48,965
All in due time,
Mr. McGinnis.
923
00:20:48,999 --> 00:20:53,703
Oh, don't look so glum.
924
00:20:53,737 --> 00:20:58,841
My current situation
is but a temporary setback.
925
00:20:58,875 --> 00:21:02,645
History always sides
with a winner.
926
00:21:11,488 --> 00:21:13,188
Where are you off to so fast?
927
00:21:13,223 --> 00:21:14,890
Excuse me, I'm...
928
00:21:14,924 --> 00:21:17,192
Um...
929
00:21:17,227 --> 00:21:18,961
Uh, stop, no.
930
00:21:18,995 --> 00:21:20,229
Ow, let me go.
931
00:21:20,263 --> 00:21:21,330
Give us a kiss first.
932
00:21:21,364 --> 00:21:23,065
What?
933
00:21:24,534 --> 00:21:26,201
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Please, please.
934
00:21:26,236 --> 00:21:29,237
Not like this.
Let's go to my room, huh?
935
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,042
I got us a bottle we can share.
936
00:21:34,077 --> 00:21:37,579
Touch me again,
it'll be your throat!
937
00:21:41,350 --> 00:21:43,585
Bloody whore.
938
00:21:52,083 --> 00:21:53,551
My grandpap,
939
00:21:53,585 --> 00:21:55,252
a dough puncher from way back,
940
00:21:55,287 --> 00:21:58,222
taught me surest way
to a woman's heart
941
00:21:58,256 --> 00:21:59,890
by way of her stomach.
942
00:21:59,924 --> 00:22:05,162
By God, if that wasn't
certain with my Tess.
943
00:22:05,196 --> 00:22:08,732
You married, Mr. Ferguson?
944
00:22:08,766 --> 00:22:11,235
Some could call it that.
945
00:22:11,269 --> 00:22:13,270
Kids?
946
00:22:13,304 --> 00:22:15,172
Got me a new baby girl.
947
00:22:15,206 --> 00:22:17,908
Nothing like a new baby to
make a man count his blessings
948
00:22:17,942 --> 00:22:19,376
and keep them close.
949
00:22:19,410 --> 00:22:23,361
I got five youngsters,
all girls,
950
00:22:23,481 --> 00:22:24,369
if you want to know.
951
00:22:24,489 --> 00:22:28,418
The oldest one's
12 going on 40.
952
00:22:28,453 --> 00:22:32,589
That little girl of mine,
she beautiful.
953
00:22:32,623 --> 00:22:36,559
I look in her eyes,
and she melt my heart.
954
00:22:36,594 --> 00:22:41,965
But her mama afraid this job
gonna get me killed.
955
00:22:41,999 --> 00:22:45,668
She think that baby ain't gonna
have no daddy to bring her up.
956
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,641
How's the coffee?
957
00:22:51,675 --> 00:22:54,143
It's better the second day.
958
00:22:54,178 --> 00:22:56,112
It's the sock.
959
00:22:56,146 --> 00:22:58,614
Need you boys to ride out
and tell them homesteaders
960
00:22:58,649 --> 00:23:00,149
there's no way around the land.
961
00:23:00,184 --> 00:23:01,984
This here's the writ
of eminent domain.
962
00:23:02,019 --> 00:23:03,586
Let them know the government
pays $1.50 an acre.
963
00:23:03,620 --> 00:23:06,155
Railroad will throw in
another dollar.
964
00:23:06,190 --> 00:23:08,124
Let 'em know that's more
than fair, all right?
965
00:23:08,158 --> 00:23:09,292
Yes, sir.
966
00:23:09,326 --> 00:23:11,894
Oh, you do the talking.
967
00:23:11,929 --> 00:23:15,498
Mormons ain't keen on negroes.
968
00:23:19,469 --> 00:23:21,470
Finish your coffee,
Mr. Ferguson.
969
00:23:21,505 --> 00:23:23,906
I got to visit the necessary.
970
00:23:23,940 --> 00:23:26,041
Then we'll be on our way.
971
00:23:29,312 --> 00:23:31,146
They said
he was a hell-raiser,
972
00:23:31,181 --> 00:23:35,317
but my pap was a lazy son of
a bitch by the time I knew him.
973
00:23:35,352 --> 00:23:37,820
Fact, one time
when I was, oh, nine...
974
00:23:37,854 --> 00:23:39,655
Don't you ever stop talking?
975
00:23:39,689 --> 00:23:42,091
No, sir, I do not.
976
00:23:42,125 --> 00:23:45,327
Out here, a quiet man is twice
as likely as a noisy one
977
00:23:45,361 --> 00:23:48,430
to have his beard clung to
by a bear.
978
00:23:48,464 --> 00:23:52,167
I intend to keep my scalp.
979
00:23:55,071 --> 00:23:56,939
Maybe they're gone.
980
00:23:56,973 --> 00:23:59,107
No, they ain't gone.
981
00:23:59,142 --> 00:24:02,010
Horses still in the barn.
982
00:24:15,858 --> 00:24:17,659
Keep your gun close.
983
00:24:17,693 --> 00:24:19,060
You see our cinch
getting frayed,
984
00:24:19,095 --> 00:24:21,763
start shooting.
985
00:24:29,738 --> 00:24:31,873
Hello!
986
00:24:31,907 --> 00:24:34,409
Anybody home?
987
00:24:39,014 --> 00:24:40,415
Mr. Hatch?
988
00:24:43,519 --> 00:24:47,722
State your business!
989
00:24:47,756 --> 00:24:50,424
I'm Dick Barlow,
Chief of Police,
990
00:24:50,459 --> 00:24:53,060
Union Pacific Railroad.
991
00:24:55,564 --> 00:24:58,266
Think you know why we're here.
992
00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:01,602
I already told the other one,
we ain't leaving.
993
00:25:04,606 --> 00:25:06,714
You ain't got any choice.
994
00:25:06,834 --> 00:25:08,242
That's what
we come to tell you.
995
00:25:08,276 --> 00:25:10,911
We ain't afraid to fight
for what's ours.
996
00:25:10,946 --> 00:25:14,415
You best leave
on out of here now.
997
00:25:14,449 --> 00:25:17,952
Threatening us
ain't gonna get us no...
998
00:25:17,986 --> 00:25:19,753
Barlow!
999
00:25:19,788 --> 00:25:20,988
What
1000
00:25:53,421 --> 00:25:54,921
I need 75,000 ties
1001
00:25:54,955 --> 00:25:56,689
delivered 25 miles
beyond the end of the rails
1002
00:25:56,724 --> 00:25:58,057
before the first of the month,
1003
00:25:58,294 --> 00:25:59,492
a hundred barrels
of blasting powder.
1004
00:25:59,527 --> 00:26:01,227
Make sure we got enough
wranglers to tend them cattle
1005
00:26:01,262 --> 00:26:04,497
when they get here...
1006
00:26:04,532 --> 00:26:05,965
from Denver.
1007
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,368
Eva!
1008
00:26:12,206 --> 00:26:14,073
What happened?
1009
00:26:14,108 --> 00:26:15,575
The Mormons shot him.
1010
00:26:15,609 --> 00:26:16,576
Shit.
1011
00:26:16,610 --> 00:26:17,944
Careful, careful.
1012
00:26:17,978 --> 00:26:19,145
I got his legs.
1013
00:26:21,148 --> 00:26:22,515
Eva!
1014
00:26:22,549 --> 00:26:24,951
Eva, we need you!
1015
00:26:24,985 --> 00:26:26,786
Elam, the baby!
1016
00:26:26,820 --> 00:26:29,622
You're the closest thing
we got to a doctor.
1017
00:26:52,012 --> 00:26:53,445
Go get me some onion broth.
1018
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,014
You!
1019
00:26:55,048 --> 00:26:56,849
Go to the hotel restaurant,
1020
00:26:56,883 --> 00:26:58,884
get me some onion broth now.
Go!
1021
00:26:58,918 --> 00:27:00,052
Was it the old man or the boy?
1022
00:27:00,086 --> 00:27:01,820
I don't know for certain.
1023
00:27:01,855 --> 00:27:04,390
- Certain you don't know.
- Told you I don't know.
1024
00:27:04,424 --> 00:27:05,624
Well, I know for certain
there's a man lying here
1025
00:27:05,658 --> 00:27:07,025
with a bullet in him.
1026
00:27:07,060 --> 00:27:08,026
I just told you
I ain't seen him.
1027
00:27:08,061 --> 00:27:10,529
Will you two stop it?
1028
00:27:10,563 --> 00:27:11,730
Shut that baby up.
1029
00:27:11,764 --> 00:27:14,533
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
1030
00:27:14,567 --> 00:27:15,901
Here.
1031
00:27:15,935 --> 00:27:17,836
Prop him up.
1032
00:27:17,870 --> 00:27:19,237
Get him up.
1033
00:27:21,741 --> 00:27:24,009
Drink the medicine.
1034
00:27:35,855 --> 00:27:39,257
Yeah, I can smell the onion
broth through the wound.
1035
00:27:39,292 --> 00:27:40,892
He's gut-shot, Elam.
1036
00:27:40,926 --> 00:27:43,094
He ain't gonna make it.
1037
00:27:45,197 --> 00:27:47,165
Take that damn baby outside.
1038
00:27:47,199 --> 00:27:49,434
No, wait.
1039
00:27:49,468 --> 00:27:53,404
Bring her here.
1040
00:27:53,439 --> 00:27:56,708
Bring her over here.
Please.
1041
00:27:56,742 --> 00:27:58,843
Let me see her.
1042
00:27:58,877 --> 00:28:01,612
Please let me see her.
1043
00:28:07,820 --> 00:28:09,253
Oh.
1044
00:28:14,426 --> 00:28:19,397
She's beautiful,
Mr. Ferguson.
1045
00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:22,266
Just like you said.
1046
00:28:53,031 --> 00:28:56,099
You wanted it.
1047
00:28:57,869 --> 00:28:59,846
Not like this.
1048
00:29:07,145 --> 00:29:09,045
Well?
1049
00:29:20,491 --> 00:29:22,592
All right.
Telegraph the fort.
1050
00:29:22,626 --> 00:29:24,661
Tell the major we need help
evicting them homesteaders.
1051
00:29:27,131 --> 00:29:29,332
You want a railroad story?
1052
00:29:29,366 --> 00:29:32,001
Follow me.
1053
00:30:10,663 --> 00:30:13,265
Mr. Hatch!
1054
00:30:13,299 --> 00:30:17,903
This is Cullen Bohannon of
the Union Pacific Railroad.
1055
00:30:17,937 --> 00:30:20,272
I have a writ of execution here
1056
00:30:20,306 --> 00:30:23,742
for the killing of
my Chief of Police.
1057
00:30:23,776 --> 00:30:26,611
Come on out.
1058
00:30:31,450 --> 00:30:34,152
You don't, and these soldiers
will burn you out.
1059
00:30:34,186 --> 00:30:35,620
I won't be able to stop them.
1060
00:30:39,492 --> 00:30:42,360
You got one minute,
Mr. Hatch.
1061
00:31:02,281 --> 00:31:06,751
United States Cavalry
was not built for waiting.
1062
00:31:06,785 --> 00:31:09,820
We didn't come here
to kill women and children.
1063
00:31:09,855 --> 00:31:13,324
A disorganized brain
is lacking in moral principles.
1064
00:31:13,358 --> 00:31:15,326
Are you aware of that,
Bohannon?
1065
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,994
Not something I ponder nights.
1066
00:31:17,028 --> 00:31:18,796
Moral principles are
the first line of defense
1067
00:31:18,830 --> 00:31:21,365
against criminal behavior.
1068
00:31:21,399 --> 00:31:23,767
You learn
something new every day.
1069
00:31:23,802 --> 00:31:25,369
Without moral principles,
1070
00:31:25,403 --> 00:31:27,438
these Mormons will inevitably
turn to violence
1071
00:31:27,472 --> 00:31:31,041
to solve their problems,
just like the heathens.
1072
00:31:31,076 --> 00:31:34,211
Am I right about that, chief?
1073
00:31:34,245 --> 00:31:36,547
What he talking about?
1074
00:31:54,899 --> 00:31:57,868
Y'all keep your barrels down.
1075
00:32:07,278 --> 00:32:10,146
You and your boys
put your guns down.
1076
00:32:10,181 --> 00:32:13,083
I told you,
stay off my property
1077
00:32:13,117 --> 00:32:15,218
or there'll be hell to pay.
1078
00:32:15,252 --> 00:32:16,920
And I told you if I couldn't
find a way around,
1079
00:32:16,954 --> 00:32:18,888
the U.S. Government would
rightfully claim its land.
1080
00:32:21,592 --> 00:32:24,727
You murdered
my Chief of Police.
1081
00:32:24,762 --> 00:32:26,930
He was trespassing.
He was warned.
1082
00:32:26,964 --> 00:32:28,998
You have to stand accountable.
1083
00:32:29,033 --> 00:32:32,035
I am the priesthood holder
of my family, Mr. Bohannon.
1084
00:32:32,069 --> 00:32:36,272
Without me,
they will not survive.
1085
00:32:36,307 --> 00:32:37,674
You should've thought
about that
1086
00:32:37,708 --> 00:32:39,509
before you pulled that trigger.
1087
00:32:39,543 --> 00:32:42,078
They won't survive.
1088
00:32:43,547 --> 00:32:44,914
I'll see to it they get to
1089
00:32:44,948 --> 00:32:46,549
the Mormon settlement
at Fort Smith.
1090
00:32:46,583 --> 00:32:48,384
How's that?
1091
00:33:40,103 --> 00:33:42,504
- He done it.
- Father?
1092
00:33:56,385 --> 00:33:58,987
Did you kill that man, son?
1093
00:33:59,021 --> 00:34:00,221
Tell me the truth now.
1094
00:34:14,803 --> 00:34:19,040
Yes, sir.
1095
00:34:19,074 --> 00:34:23,244
Mr. Ferguson,
this boy shoot Dick Barlow?
1096
00:34:25,881 --> 00:34:27,481
I ain't sure.
1097
00:34:31,687 --> 00:34:34,722
Good God, man, get on with it.
1098
00:34:34,756 --> 00:34:37,058
You'd have me hang him?
1099
00:34:37,092 --> 00:34:38,859
It's the law, Bohannon.
1100
00:34:38,894 --> 00:34:41,228
You said so yourself, and you
are obliged to uphold it.
1101
00:34:41,263 --> 00:34:45,132
We do not make exceptions
to the law out here.
1102
00:34:45,167 --> 00:34:47,201
You realize he'll hang.
1103
00:34:47,235 --> 00:34:50,538
He's just a boy.
1104
00:34:50,572 --> 00:34:51,905
You're gonna tell me the truth.
1105
00:34:51,940 --> 00:34:53,173
I told you the truth!
1106
00:34:53,208 --> 00:34:55,576
Son, you got a different story,
1107
00:34:55,610 --> 00:34:58,045
you best tell me right now.
1108
00:35:02,617 --> 00:35:05,786
He's just a boy.
1109
00:35:13,861 --> 00:35:16,263
Not today he ain't.
1110
00:35:16,297 --> 00:35:18,065
All right.
1111
00:35:22,403 --> 00:35:24,438
Father.
1112
00:35:24,472 --> 00:35:26,173
Come here.
1113
00:35:26,207 --> 00:35:28,675
- Father!
- Come on, boy.
1114
00:35:28,709 --> 00:35:31,645
- Come on.
- Easy.
1115
00:35:33,981 --> 00:35:36,583
Father!
1116
00:35:36,617 --> 00:35:38,284
Father!
1117
00:35:38,319 --> 00:35:39,719
Sorry, son.
1118
00:36:24,026 --> 00:36:27,561
"Life on the prairie is
not worth the powder it takes
1119
00:36:27,596 --> 00:36:30,598
to blow it all to hell."
1120
00:36:37,356 --> 00:36:38,990
So say the denizens
of Hell On Wheels,
1121
00:36:39,024 --> 00:36:41,359
the rollicking tent city
1122
00:36:41,393 --> 00:36:44,028
that moves with
the transcontinental railroad
1123
00:36:44,062 --> 00:36:45,730
as it creeps across the country
1124
00:36:45,764 --> 00:36:48,732
at a pace of two miles per day.
1125
00:36:48,767 --> 00:36:50,868
It is no place
for women or children,
1126
00:36:50,902 --> 00:36:52,536
as the men who labor here,
1127
00:36:52,571 --> 00:36:55,372
veterans of the recent conflict,
immigrants,
1128
00:36:55,407 --> 00:36:56,940
and free negroes,
1129
00:36:56,975 --> 00:36:59,576
often take to drink
and un-Christian pursuits
1130
00:36:59,611 --> 00:37:02,913
when not swinging a hammer
or laying track.
1131
00:37:02,947 --> 00:37:06,283
Every man here carries a gun,
1132
00:37:06,317 --> 00:37:09,553
which can be had for
as little as $3,
1133
00:37:09,587 --> 00:37:13,123
and a knife,
and goes to church on Sunday.
1134
00:37:19,964 --> 00:37:22,899
Here you can buy a meal for 35¢
1135
00:37:22,934 --> 00:37:25,135
a beer for less than a quarter,
1136
00:37:25,169 --> 00:37:29,206
a suit of clothes for $5
that includes a hat.
1137
00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:32,275
The belongings of the dead
are cheaper than that.
1138
00:37:32,310 --> 00:37:35,178
Any last words, son?
1139
00:37:38,249 --> 00:37:41,117
I came here to meet the man
who replaced "Doc" Durant
1140
00:37:41,152 --> 00:37:44,788
as Chief Engineer of
the Union Pacific Railroad.
1141
00:37:44,822 --> 00:37:49,926
I can tell you he is a man
for whom honor is sacred
1142
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,930
and virtue impermanent.
1143
00:37:57,434 --> 00:38:00,436
In the brave new wilderness
he calls home,
1144
00:38:00,471 --> 00:38:03,473
integrity is important
to Cullen Bohannon.
1145
00:40:19,474 --> 00:40:21,742
Whether a man of integrity
is what's needed
1146
00:40:21,776 --> 00:40:25,479
to build the railroad,
we don't yet know.
1147
00:40:25,513 --> 00:40:28,048
The railroad has always
been the business
1148
00:40:28,083 --> 00:40:30,350
of the unscrupulous
and corrupt.
1149
00:40:40,662 --> 00:40:42,963
You owe me a life
1150
00:40:42,997 --> 00:40:45,332
for the one
you took from me today.
1151
00:40:54,175 --> 00:40:57,844
I suspect our new Chief
Engineer to be neither.
1152
00:41:14,028 --> 00:41:16,029
And for that, dear reader,
1153
00:41:16,063 --> 00:41:18,965
we might all
count our blessings...
1154
00:41:26,006 --> 00:41:28,508
and say a prayer.
1155
00:41:35,349 --> 00:41:38,588
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