Understanding The Call of the Wild: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press 'Literature in Context' Series)

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1. Literary Analysis: Adventure and Myth......Page 16
2. The Alaskan Panhandle and the Yukon Territory......Page 40
FROM: Fur Seals of Alaska. Hearings before the United States Committee on Ways and Means (1904)......Page 52
FROM: H. M. Robinson, The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory (1879)......Page 53
FROM: Robert W. Service, "The Cremation of Sam McGee," in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (1907)......Page 64
3. The Yukon Gold Rush......Page 70
FROM: M.H.E. Hayne and H. West Taylor, The Pioneers of the Klondyke (1897)......Page 82
FROM: "Stream of Gold from Klondyke," San Francisco Call (July 18, 1897)......Page 87
FROM: "More Want to Go," Oakland Times (July 30, 1897)......Page 94
FROM: Steamer Advertisement, San Francisco Call (July 18, 1897)......Page 96
FROM: Advertisement for Equipment in A. E. Ironmonger Sola, Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New El Dorado (1897)......Page 98
FROM: Advertisement for a Guide in A. E. Ironmonger Sola, Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New El Dorado (1897)......Page 99
FROM: L. A. Coolidge, Klondike and the Yukon Country (1897)......Page 100
FROM: Joseph Ladue, Klondyke Facts. Being a Complete Guide to the Gold Regions of the Great Canadian Northwest Territories and Alaska (1897)......Page 106
FROM: William B. Haskell, Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields (1898)......Page 108
FROM: A. C. Harris, Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields (1897)......Page 111
FROM: Josiah Edward Spurr, Through the Yukon Gold Diggings (1900)......Page 113
FROM: A. E. Ironmonger Sola, Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New El Dorado (1897)......Page 116
FROM: L. A. Coolidge, Klondike and the Yukon Country (1897)......Page 119
FROM: Josiah Edward Spurr, Through the Yukon Gold Diggings (1900)......Page 121
FROM: Joseph Ladue, Klondyke Facts (1897)......Page 122
FROM: A. E. Ironmonger Sola, Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New El Dorado (1897)......Page 124
FROM: Joseph Ladue, Klondyke Facts (1897)......Page 126
FROM: W. D. Lighthall, "The Too-Much-Gold River," in Joseph Ladue, Klondyke Facts (1897)......Page 131
FROM: Robert W. Service, "The Spell of the Yukon" and "The Heart of the Sourdough," in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (1907)......Page 133
FROM: Hugh Wells, "There Is a Land," and Anonymous, "This Is the Grave," Carved into Trees on the Way to the Yukon (1897)......Page 137
4. The Sled Dog......Page 142
FROM: Robert Leighton, Dogs and All About Them (1910)......Page 162
FROM: Edward Jesse, Anecdotes of Dogs (1878)......Page 165
FROM: Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)......Page 167
FROM: Edward Jesse, Anecdotes of Dogs (1878)......Page 172
FROM: Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)......Page 173
FROM: Robert Leighton, Dogs and All About Them (1910)......Page 175
FROM: H. M. Robinson, The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory (1879)......Page 177
FROM: Robert Leighton, The New Book of the Dog (1907)......Page 181
FROM: Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)......Page 183
FROM: Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)......Page 185
FROM: William B. Haskell, Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields (1898)......Page 188
FROM: "Nome Dogs Battle Blizzard," San Francisco Chronicle (Monday, February 2, 1925)......Page 193
5. Humans' Relationship with Animals: The Issue of Cruelty......Page 198
FROM: The First Book of Moses Called Genesis in the King James Version of the Bible......Page 213
FROM: H. M. Robinson, The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory (1879)......Page 215
FROM: Arthur Treadwell Walden, A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon (1928)......Page 219
FROM: William B. Haskell, Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields (1898)......Page 221
FROM: Egerton Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902)......Page 225
FROM: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (1894)......Page 228
FROM: "Our Mission," PETA Web Site......Page 229
6. The Wolf: Symbol, Myth, and Issue......Page 234
FROM: "Wolves," in The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts (1887)......Page 248
FROM: H. Perry Robinson, Of Distinguished Animals (1911)......Page 250
FROM: Nathaniel Reed, "Letter to Edward A. Garmatz, Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, 1972," in Predatory Mammals and Endangered Species. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation (1972)......Page 252
FROM: Araby Colton, "Letter to Wolf Defenders," in Predatory Mammals and Endangered Species (1972)......Page 255
FROM: "Statement of Hon. Ron Marlenee, U.S. Representative from Montana," in Endangered Species Act Reauthorization. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment (1987)......Page 257
FROM: "Testimony of Frank Dunkle, Director of Fish and Wildlife Service," in Endangered Species Act Reauthorization (1987)......Page 260
B......Page 264
C......Page 265
E......Page 266
H......Page 267
K......Page 268
N......Page 269
R......Page 270
S......Page 271
W......Page 272
Y......Page 273