

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.
