Polly Bemis - Books and Films About Her Life

Books and Films About Her Life

  • Polly Bemis' life was fictionalized in the 1991 film A Thousand Pieces of Gold, starring Rosalind Chao (as Polly) and Chris Cooper (as Charlie).
  • Polly Bemis: A Chinese American Pioneer, written by Priscilla Wegars and published in 2003, is a noted elementary classroom history book.
  • The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West, by Christopher Corbett (2010)
  • Thousand Pieces of Gold is a biographical novel about Lalu Nathoy/Polly Bemis and includes an essay in which the author, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, documents her research for the book and her discoveries in the years since Polly's death.
  • Wild Women of the Old West, pages 45–68, 200-203, edited by Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain, Golden, CO: Fulcrum (2003), ISBN 978-1-55591-295-6.

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