Call Of The Wild

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or hardly nothing, about managing
a sled team. There trip began with a very bad start. The family had loaded up
their wagon with too much unneeded baggage, and it was top heavy. As the dogs
began to pull away and pull around a curve, the baggage tipped over along with
the sled and thus the unnecessary baggage was discarded, and the trip was barely
completed because of harsh weather, wrong supplies, and poor management skills
of the dog handlers. All except a man that went by the name of John Thornton,
perhaps the only sane one in the group. After one of the men repeatedly beat on
a dog, Thornton became enraged. He threatened to kill the man. A few minutes
later, the rest of the family that left Thornton behind fell through some
cracked ice and drowned. That left Buck and Thornton to fend for themselves.
The time of this book is in the great gold rush era in the Yukon and Alaska.
The rest of the book concludes what happens to Buck and John Thornton and some
of the great and ...

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