Recommended. I guess I had never fully contemplated what an adventure building the railroad across the continent must’ve been. Whilel there are a lot of other plot meanderings, a lot of the background at least involves the challenges of railroad building in that era.
It interested me enough to prompt me to buy “Nothing Like It In the World“ by Srephen Ambrose to read more about the project. Many of the scenes from Hell on Wheels helped add color to the things that Ambrose describes in the book.