Events

Buck learn's the Law of Club and Fang when he is beaten with a club by the man in the red sweater and witnesses Curly being murdered by the other dogs in the pack.

"Like Dave, he asked nothing, gave nothing, expected nothing: and when he marched slowly and deliberately into their midst, even Spitz left him alone.

While being beaten for refusing to continue on the journey, Buck was saved by a man named Thornton. Soon after, Buck saw his former owners and teammates fall through thin ice and drown.

"Then he stooped, picked it up himself, and with two strokes cut Buck's traces."

While sleeping by the campfire at night, Buck begins to have dreams about a primitive man.

"You've got a right smart load as it is," said one of them; "and it's not me should tell you your business, but I wouldn't tote that tent along if I was you."

For most of his life, Buck lived with Judge Miller and lived an easy life. Everything changed when Manuel, the gardener, stole Buck from Judge Miller and sold him.

"...he carried the Judge's grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard."

After returning to camp to discover his owner has been killed, Buck permanently joins a w olf pack and never returns to civilization.

"The years were not many when the Yeehats noted a change in the breed of timber wolves; for some were seen with splashes of brown on head and muzzle, and with a rift of white centering down the chest."

After enduring ongoing attacks, Buck defeats Spitz and takes over as the leader of the sled team.

"But in two days' time they dropped him down the Yukon bank from the Barracks, loaded with letters for the outside."