Stardom for Anson Mount? Fine, but on his terms

NEW YORK (AP) — When first sighted, Cullen Bohannon is in Washington, D.C. He is a man of few words and piercing, haunted eyes. A Confederate soldier in the just-concluded Civil War, he now has unfinished business of his own: avenging the death of his wife.

"Did the war take her?" someone asks Bohannon, to which he tersely acknowledges, "Sump-em li-kat."

So he heads west to work on the transcontinental railroad and settle some scores at the Union Pacific construction camp.

That, in a nutshell, describes "Hell on Wheels," an epic new AMC drama taking its title from the term for the movable community that will accompany the drudgerous laying of track through fierce …