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I. Introduction


 * Jack London wrote Call of the Wild
 * Impacted by Klondike Gold Rush
 * Gold Rush required dogs as seen in the book, cause many people to head into Yukon, and the land was protected by Indians

II. Body Paragraph I
 * Topic Sentence “The Klondike Gold rush impacted... both resulted in a surge of people travelling to Yukon
 * Klondike Gold rush cause 100,000 people to head for Yukon
 * In the book they were headed for Yukon

III. Body Paragraph 2
 * Topic sentence “Call of the Wild showed historical...because both required dogs to...”
 * Sled dogs were required to navigate through the cold, icy, harsh environment in Yukon.
 * Buck and the other dogs were all being used to navigate through Yukon

IV. Body Paragraph 3
 * Topic sentence “Call of the Wild showed a historical impact from the... because Indians...”
 * The land was protected by the Indians
 * In the end the people were all attacked and killed by the Indians. All except Buck.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">V. Wrap <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Klondike Gold Rush." History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. <http://www.historynet.com/klondike-gold-rush.htm>.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Klondike Gold rush impacted Call of the Wild...
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The book has many events similar to the ones in the Klondike Gold Rush... (Examples from essay)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conclusion


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Klondike gold rush was the inspiration for Call of the Wild
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">August 16, 1896 - two Indians and George Washington Carmack found gold nugget in Creek bed
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">100,000 set out to find gold
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">40,000 made it.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rumors began in 1830
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1878 - George Holt started gold rush when he returned with lots of gold nuggets.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1880 - 200 Miners
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1885 - Gold found in “paying amounts” in Stewart river
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Course gold found in forty mile river - trading post springs up
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Farther down the Yukon - Russians find $400,000 dollar a year dirt
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ‘Paris of Alaska’ city sprang up
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The gold rush was set in motion after discovering a thumb size piece of gold.
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">July 1897, miners were picked up on Alaskan steamship with 2 tons of gold.
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rest of the world joined the gold rush
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People without jobs mortgaged homes or borrowed $500.
 * 16) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$500 was necessary to buy an outfit - a stove, tent, clothes, tools, a years supplies.
 * 17) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The guys who found gold were going to keep it secret.
 * 18) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A fight led to them bragging about the gold which spiked the rush.
 * 19) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Very cold - lakes and rivers froze over
 * 20) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack London earned $3000 dollars by taking people up the river in boats

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Alaskan Arctic Expeditions - Malamute History." Alaskan Arctic Expeditions - Home. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. <http://www.alaskanarcticexpedition.com/history.html>.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Klondike Gold rush in 1896 required strong labor
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dog teams were found to be capable of pulling the weight
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alaskan Malamutes became prized pull dogs.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Required very low amounts of food
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cost about $500
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dogs became the primary method of hauling weight
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the summer they were hitched to trams on the railroad

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> "::: The Klondike Gold Rush :." ::: UW Libraries Digital Collections :::. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. <http://content.lib.washington.edu/extras/goldrush.html>.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gold was first found in Rabbit creek
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Initially gold was found all over the place
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many people who set out for Yukon died or simply gave up
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The trip was long and cold
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pack animals and sled were used to carry loads.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The temperature range between -20 and -50
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tents were the warmest shelter
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">over 1 billion dollars worth of gold was found in modern money
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Influx of 30,000 made Dawson largest city north of san francisco
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First city in western Canada to have electric lights
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Growth led to Dawson becoming a Canadian territory
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Seattle businesses made over a million dollars selling supplies. Not adjusted.
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Seattle governor had resigned to go to Yukon
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He gave up and turned back
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Population of Vancouver doubled
 * 16) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Few people found riches
 * 17) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Most people had to work for Klondike Kings
 * 18) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many Creeks were already claimed
 * 19) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Donald Trump’s grandfather, Fred Trump, made riches running a hotel and restaurant
 * 20) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Malnutrition was a problem

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">London, Jack. "Introduction." Introduction. The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. New York: Signet Classic, 2009. Print.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lived out what he wrote
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Born in 1876, Illegitimate.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mostly self educated
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Took the phrase “Survival of the fittest” to heart
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Infected with “Klondikitis”
 * 6) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">His stepsisters husband offered him money by mortgaging their home
 * 7) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The husband was a civil war veteran also infected with Klondikitis.
 * 8) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Traveled on the Chilkoot path
 * 9) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Had a thousand pounds of luggage.
 * 10) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Traveled down a river in a home made canoe
 * 11) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">River froze 70 miles short of Dawson
 * 12) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stayed in a cabin with three other men waiting for winter to pass
 * 13) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">visited by many people and Indians
 * 14) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Heroes in his stories were based off of Cabin visitors
 * 15) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Experienced temperatures of negative 60
 * 16) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Visitors told stories about sled dogs that were beaten so bad they became fiends
 * 17) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spring came and thawed the river
 * 18) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Traveled to Dawson
 * 19) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Met Yale sons of a California judge and admire their Mongrel
 * 20) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He immortalized the Mongrel in Call of The Wild
 * 21) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He only had four and a half dollars from the entire trip
 * 22) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Returned home and could not get a job
 * 23) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Began wriiting, based things off his gold rush experiences
 * 24) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was offered a job for life
 * 25) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother urged him not to take it
 * 26) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He decided not to take it and continued writing
 * 27) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After writing many short stories he wrote a 32,000 word novella, Call of the Wild.
 * 28) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Said he wrote Call of the Wild to redeem dogs after Diable - A Dog
 * 29) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Diable was about a sled dog
 * 30) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The sled dog in Diable killed his own master.
 * 31) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Removed profanity from Call of the Wild
 * 32) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Was told to remove it because it could be a school book
 * 33) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">London was also told to change the title
 * 34) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He did not change it

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">20+7+20+34 = 81 Notes