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The story starts out in the santa clara valley were Buck has a peaceful existance. The only problem is when the assistant gardener sells buck on the black market. Buck then is put in a crate and shipped to a man with a club. Buck then realizes the law of club and fang and unwillingly is put on a ship traveling to the klondike. Buck is then put in the hands of two native that know the area very well Francios and Perrault this is were he encounters Spitz. In the battle to the death Buck wins and is put at the head of the dog team. They are then sold as mail dogs delivering mail. The next owners are very inexperienced and have no idea how to go on along the trail, Mercedes, Hal, and Charles. Then as they are travling along the trail the dogs stop right in front of John Thorton an experienced trails man who at the sight of Hal wipping the dogs, jumps out and takes Buck away to safety. John Thorton told them that the trail was unsafe but they went any way and as Buck watches them leave the ice cracks and breaks up and they are gone. They then go looking for an ancient gold mine said to cotain riches. They do find it, and buck goes off in the woods to find his wild brothers, but when he comes back indians have killed John Thorton. Buck then goes crazy and is then on feared by the indians for being a killer. From then on buck lived in the forest answering to the call of the wild.