Factual error: Immediately after Cullen Bohannon is blown out of the blasting hole and is helped up off the ground, a footprint is in the dirt/snow on the ground behind him is revealed that is made from a modern shoe. It's a complex impression made from a cast rubber sole of some sort. (00:15:10)
Hell on Wheels (2011)
1 factual error in season 5 - chronological order
Starring: Colm Meaney, Anson Mount, Phil Burke, Robin McLeavy
Revelations - S1-E7
Factual error: During the race between the horse and the train, the horses are wearing shoes. The Native Americans had no way of forging steel to make horse shoes.
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