Thousand pieces of gold
a biographical novel
by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
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Publisher description: Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the fascinating story of Lalu Nathoy, later known as Polly Bemis. Born in China in the mid 1800's, Lalu was raised in a peasant village ravaged by poverty and drought. At an early age she was snatched from her family by bandits, shipped to America as a slave, and auctioned off to a Chinese saloon keeper in an Idaho mining camp. There, having gained her freedom through a poker game, her indomitable spirit took her from running her own boarding house to homesteading twenty acres on the River of No Return. Today, almost fifty years after her death, stories of her courage and acts of kindness live on. The first biography of a Chinese American pioneer woman, Thousand Pieces of Gold is an important contribution to the literature by and about minority women as well as an intriguing account of an unforgettable character.
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Fiction, Bemis, Polly, in fiction, Chinese American women in fiction, Chinese American women, Women ranchers in fiction, Women immigrants in fiction, Women slaves, Women immigrants, Idaho in fiction, Women slaves in fiction, Women ranchers, Chinese Americans, China in fiction, Chinese Americans in fiction, Chinese Americans in fiction, History, Bemis, Polly, in fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Chinese americans, fiction, Fiction, generalPeople
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Thousand pieces of gold: a biographical novel
2004, Beacon Press
in English
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Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel
June 1999, Design Enterprises of San Francisco
Hardcover
in English
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Thousand pieces of gold: a biographical novel
1988, Beacon Press
in English
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Thousand pieces of gold: a biographical novel
1981, Design Enterprises of San Francisco
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-339).
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