The rivals spar for supremacy of the pack, but Buck manages to break Spitz's leg, claiming victory.īuck becomes a masterful leader, making record runs across the Klondike. One night, while Buck leads the team on a rabbit hunt, Spitz makes his attack. Buck also instigates a mutiny among the weaker dogs.
A pack of mad huskies attack the camp, Dolly subsequently goes mad from rabies, and the team struggles crossing treacherous stretches of thin ice. Yet conditions on the trail postpone their imminent showdown. Mastering his ability to scavenge, steal, and fight, Buck's desire to dominate the sled dog team increases, and his rivalry with the lead dog, Spitz, intensifies. He learns not only from their experience, but also from the wild instincts awakening within him. Under the tutelage of Perrault and the dogs Spitz and Dave, Buck transforms into a working sled dog. Buck's lessons continue on the trail, where François harnesses him to the traces for the first time. He learns to always strive for his survival by never letting his guard down. Her death teaches Buck a valuable lesson about the law of club and fang. Within hours of making landfall, Buck sees Curly attacked by a husky, then trampled by the rest of the sled dogs. They sail on The Narwhal to Dyea, Alaska, where Buck encounters snow for the first time.
Buck spends his days watching other dogs suffer the same treatment, until two Canadian couriers, François and Perrault, purchase him, Curly, Dave, and Spitz for their sled dog team. The man stuns Buck with his club, beating him into submission, until Buck learns to obey. At first chance, he leaps out, attacking a man in a red sweater. The man throws Buck into a crate on a train headed north.įour day's later Buck's crate is unloaded from the train.
Manuel, a gardener on the estate desperate for money, kidnaps Buck, selling him to a dog trader. Living an insular life, he has no idea that the discovery of gold in the Klondike has created a demand for dogs like him. Bernard mix, lives a princely existence on Judge Miller's estate in Santa Clara.
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