Narrates the adventures of Buck, an unusual dog, forcibly taken to the Yukon where he is mistreated and eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...

Una trama de una saga familiar, ambientada en la mitad del siglo XIX, y que viaja entre Chile y California a causa de la fiebre del oro. Sus personajes viajan entre la narración de Allende, para posarse poco a poco en la retina del lector.

This book surveys the life of John Sutter, on whose land gold was discovered, spurring the California gold rush and westward expansion.

A graphic novel adaptation of Jack London's The call of the wild, about the adventures of a dog named Buck, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who was forcibly taken to the Klondike goldfields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.