When Joe and Tony Gayton, the brothers responsible for creating Hell on Wheels, pitched their series to cable station AMC, a Western wasn’t necessarily the first thing they had in mind. The Gaytons, separately and together, had a number of projects in their past, most of them action-oriented, though some were along the lines of Suspense and Mystery genres. But AMC was having a lot of luck with Westerns, among them Broken Trail, and they’ve been blocking a lot of older Western films r


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