London's adventure tale The Call of the Wild explores the complex relationships between man and nature, and animals' struggle with their own nature in man's world. In this intcrdisciplinary study, a rich collection of primary documents point out the many issues that make this story as poignant and pertinent today as when it was written nearly a century ago. Compiled here for the first time is documentation from sources as varied as century-old newspaper accounts,legislative materials, advertisements, poetry, journals, and other startling firsthand accounts.The story's historical setting, the Yukon Gold Rush, is brought vividly into focus for readers,with firsthand accounts of the unimaginable hardships faced by the prospectors in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields.

Preface

1. Literary Analysis: Adventure and Myth

2. The Alaskan Panhandle and the Yukon Territory

FROM:

Fur Seals of Alaska. Hearings before the United

States Committee on Ways and Means (1904)

H. M. Robinson, The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of

Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory (1879)

Robert W. Service, "The Cremation of Sam McGee,"

in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (1907)

3. The Yukon Gold Rush

FROM:

M.H.E. Hayne and H. West Taylor, The Pioneers of

the Klondyke (1897)

"Stream of Gold from Klondyke," San Francisco Call

(July 18, 1897)

"More Want to Go," Oakland Times (July 30, 1897)

Steamer Advertisement, San Francisco Call (July 18,1897)

Advertisement for Equipment in A. E. Ironmonger

Sola, Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New E1

Dorado (1897)

Advertisement for a Guide in A. E. Ironmonger Sola,

Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New E1 Dorado(1897)

L. A. Coolidge, Klondike and the Yukon Country(1897)

Joseph Ladue, Klondyke Facts. Being a Complete

Guide to the Gold Regions of the Great Canadian

Northwest Territories and Alaska (1897)

William B. Haskell, Two Years in the Klondike and

Alaskan Gold-Fields (1898)

A. C. Harris, Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields(1897)

Josiah Edward Spurt, Through the Yukon Gold

Diggings (1900)

A. E. Ironmonger Sola, Klondyke: Truth and Facts of,

the New E1 Dorado (1897)

L. A. Coolidge, Klondike and the Yukon Country(1897)

Josiah Edward Spurt, Through the Yukon Gold

Diggings (1900)

Joseph Ladue, Klondyke Facts (1897)

A. E. Ironmonger Sola, Klondyke: Truth and Facts of

the New EI Dorado (1897)

Joseph Ladue, Klondyke Facts (1897)

W. D. Lighthall, "The Too-Much-Gold River," in

Joseph Ladue, Klondyke Facts (1897)

Robert W. Service, "The Spell of the Yukon" and

"The Heart of the Sourdough," in The Spell of the

Yukon and Other Verses (1907)

Hugh Wells, "There Is a Land," and Anonymous,

"This Is the Grave," Carved into Trees on the Way to

the Yukon (1897)

4. The Sled Dog

FROM:

Robert Leighton, Dogs and All About Them (1910)

Edward Jesse, Anecdotes of Dogs (1878)

Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)

Edward Jesse, Anecdotes of Dogs (1878)

Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)

Robert Leighton, Dogs and All About Them (1910)

H. M. Robinson, The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of

Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory (1879)

Robert Leighton, The New Book of the Dog (1907)

Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)

Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)

William B. Haskell, Two Years in the Klondike and

Alaskan Gold-Fields (1898)

"Nome Dogs Battle Blizzard," San Francisco

Chronicle (Monday, February 2, 1925)

5. Humans' Relationship with Animals: The Issue of Cruelty

FROM:

The First Book of Moses Called Genesis in the King

James Version of the Bible

H. M. Robinson, The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of

Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory (1879)

Arthur Treadwell Walden, A Dog-Puncher on the

Yukon (1928)

William B. Haskell, Two Years in the Klondike and

Alaskan Gold-Fields (1898)

Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)

Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (1894)

"Our Mission," PETA Web Site

6. The Wolf: Symbol, Myth, and Issue

FROM:

"Wolves," in The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts

(1887)

H. Perry Robinson, Of Distinguished Animals (1911)

Nathaniel Reed, "Letter to Edward A. Garmatz,

Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and

Fisheries, House of Representatives, 1972," in

Predatory Mammals and Endangered Species.

Hearings before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and

Wildlife Conservation (1972)

Araby Colton, "Letter to Wolf Defenders," in

Predatory Mammals and Endangered Species (1972)

"Statement of Hon. Ron Marlenee, U.S.

Representative from Montana," in Endangered

Species Act Reauthorization. Hearing before the

Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife

Conservation and the Environment (1987)

"Testimony of Frank Dunkle, Director of Fish and

Wildlife Service," in Endangered Species Act

Reauthorization (1987)

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