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Stasz, Dr. Clarice. "Jack London: Biography." //The Jack London Online Collection//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].

1. born January 12, 1876 2. born near Third and Brannan Streets in San Francisco 3. found a kind librarian who encouraged his learning 4. found librarian in Oakland Public Library 5. often studied at a saloon called Heinold's First and Last Chance, as a schoolboy 6. attended Oakland High School in California 7. contributed numerous articles to the school newspaper 8. confessed his desire to attend a university to saloon owner at the age of 17 9. wanted to go to a university to pursue a writing career 10. Heinold (owner of saloon), lent him tuition money so he could go to college 11. really wanted to attend University of California, Berkeley 12. got accepted into University of California, Berkeley 13. on July 12, 1897 him and his sisters' husband sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush 14. setting of some of his successful novels 15. became malnourished in the gold fields 16. gums became swollen and lost his 4 front teeth <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">17. pains in hip and leg muscles <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">18. face received marks that always remind him of his struggles <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">19. sold The Call of the Wild to The Saturday Evening Post for $750 in early 1903 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">20. book rights to Macmillan for $2,000

"Jack London - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss." //The Literature Network: Online Classic Literature, Poems, and Quotes. Essays & Summaries//. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. [].

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1.Farm boy at age of seven <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2.At age 10 sold newspapers on the street <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">3.Worked on an ice wagon <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">4.Worked in a bowling alley <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5.Worked in a cannery <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">6.Became a member of the Fish Patrol <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">7.Spent 7 months at sea on a three-masted sealer <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">8.Worked in a jute mill <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">9.Worked in a laundry <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">10.Shoveled coal forOaklandelectric railway power plant <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">11.Worked as a roustabout <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">12.Tramped across country <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">13.Thrown in prison 30 days hard labor atNiagara Falls <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">14.AttendedOaklandHigh Schoolwhile working as a janitor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">15.Became known asOakland's "Boy Socialist" at nineteen <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">16.AttendedUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">17.Called "American Kipling" at twenty-four <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">18.Renown author, social crusader, journalist, world traveler and correspondent at thirty-one <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">19.Prizewinning stockbreeder – scientific farmer at thirty-five <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">20.Self-made millionaire by the time of his death at forty

"Call of the Wild Background | GradeSaver." //Study Guides & Essay Editing | GradeSaver//. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. [].

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1. spent single winter in the Klondike Gold Rush <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2. claimed to have seen mythic wolf while there <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">3. ^ inspired character "Buck" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">4. time spent in the Klondike Gold Rush influenced the writing of the novel <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5. Klondike Gold Rush was an attempt by around 100,000 people to reach the Klondike gold fields <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">6. only about 30,000 to 40,000 arrived successfully <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">7. lived in California as a young man; hometown in novel is California as well <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">8. left for the Klondike himself; Buck left for the Klondike in the novel <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">9. agreed to shorten novel <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">10. set price at 3 cents per word <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">11. Macmillan promised to give it extensive advertising <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">12. opened new era of literature <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">13. became a classic <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">14. novel has never been out of print in the last 100 years <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">15. critics still rave about it <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">16. novel was originally named "The Sleeping Wolf" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">17. sled dogs were required to go through the icy and cold weather in the Klondike <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">18. land was protected by Indians <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">19. in the novel everyone was killed by Indians except for Buck <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">20. published 19 books

"Unique Facts about Canada: Klondike Gold Rush." //Sheppard Software: Fun Free Online Learning Games and Activities for Kids.// Web. 29 Nov. 2011. [].

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1.On August 16, 1896, they discovered rich placer gold deposits in Bonanza Creek. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2.George Carmack was officially credited for the discovery <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">3.Eldorado and Hunker Creeks were rapidly staked by miners <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">4.News reached the United States on July 17, 1897 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5.and within a month the Klondike stampede had begun. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">6.The population in the Klondike in 1898 may have reached 40,000 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">7.Stampeders had to carry one ton of goods over the pass to be allowed to enter Canada. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">8.the stampeders encountered a Mountie post that enforced that regulation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">9.The Chilkoot Pass was steep and hazardous, rising a thousand feet in the last half mile <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">10.White pass was known as the Dead Horse Trail with about 3,000 animals dying along the route. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">11.Others took the Copper River Trail or the Teslin Trail by Stikine River and Teslin Lake <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">12.some used the all-Canadian Ashcroft and Edmonton trails <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">13.Some of those who joined the gold rush were already famous <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">14.An estimated 100,000 people participated in the gold rush and about 30,000 made it <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">15.By 1901, when the first census was taken, the population had declined to 9,000. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">16.Among the many to take part in the gold rush was writer Jack London <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">17.White Fang and The Call of the Wild were influenced by his northern experiences <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">18.The newspapers of the time termed this phenomenon "Klondicitis" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">19.The publicity around the gold rush led to a flurry of branded goods being put onto the market <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">20.Guidebooks of a more or less serious nature were published