Union Pacific Priced!: A Drama of the Gouldium

By: F. L. Light

Narrated by: Carl Schwaber

Jay Gould, though consumption has first come forth into his lungs, purchases the sovereign share of Union Pacific, a railroad of indebted frailty, frailer becoming while rates decline throughout the West. His health and his wife's, who is more ill than he, must be avowed. How railroad men such as James J. Hill, Charles Francis Adams, Fred Ames, and Ransom Cable comport with transportive difficulties is set forth. J. P. Morgan attempts to bring the western railroads in economical accord. This play is one of the Gouldium, a series of dramas on the life and times of Jay Gould. As in most of these plays there are seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral episodes.

©2012 Frederick Lazarus Light (P)2013 Frederick L Light

Critic reviews

“It is always gratifying, it elevates the human spirit to see one our fellows...set his aim unbelievably high and incredibly hit the mark!” (David Madgalene, bilingual author of I Hear A Journeyman Singing and many other books of verse.)

“Light has blended very well the traditions of Shakespeare, Homer, and the English language sonnet, without erring on the side of pretense. The language is high, direct, and modern. I'm thrilled with these.” (Zachary Bos, editor of Sixty Six: A Journal of Sonnet Studies.)