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Buck
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The Huntington Library claims London inscribed the note "This is Buck" on this photograph of the Klondike cabin where Marshall and Louis Bond (pictured) lived with their dog Jack. Buck was the half St. Bernard, half sheepdog who was stolen from a California estate and sold as a sled dog in the Arctic. In London's The Call of the Wild, he evolved into a fierce animal torn between his loyalty to his master and his desire to reconnect with the wild.
- Courtesy Huntington Library -
- Courtesy Huntington Library -
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Interesting! Thanks! One of my favorite books when I was a kid.
I was also a big Jack London fan. His short story "To Build a Fire" is one of the saddest, strongest things written.
After I learned his political beliefs, he lost a notch of two with me, though.
To build a fire was STRONG and I still think of it from time to time. Thanks for reminding me
old rider You and I think alike AS a teenager I only read magazines etc
To build a fire was STRONG and I still think of it from time to time. Thanks for reminding me
Yes Karl at the time I read "To Build a Fire" I had never read anything like it. Now I have to hunt down my "Complete Works of Jack London" and read it again.
Those of you who haven't read it, please do and let us know.
http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html
Thanks for the link Trap.
Brought back foggy memories of earlier times and a dirt poor ten year old boy with a hunger for adventure tales, read at night by a "coal oil lamp."
Seems foreign to me now but back then,it was not that unusual in rural South Georgia for poor folks living surviving as share croppers growing cotton and tobacco on land we worked but owned by others.