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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b1562532.
- catalog coverage "China Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Idaho Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1981.".
- catalog date "1981".
- catalog date "c1981.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1981.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "308 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Thousand pieces of gold.".
- catalog identifier "093253807X :".
- catalog identifier "0932538088 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Thousand pieces of gold.".
- catalog issued "1981".
- catalog issued "c1981.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco, CA : Design Enterprises of San Francisco,".
- catalog relation "Thousand pieces of gold.".
- catalog spatial "China Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Idaho Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 19".
- catalog subject "Bemis, Polly, 1853-1933 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Chinese American women Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3563.C353 T5".
- catalog subject "Women immigrants Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women ranchers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women slaves Fiction.".
- catalog title "Thousand pieces of gold : a biographical novel / by Ruthanne Lum McCunn.".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Historical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".