The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London distributed in 1903. The story is situated in the Yukon amid the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which solid sled pooches were sought after. The novel's focal character is a canine named Buck, a tamed puppy living at a farm in the Santa Clara Valley of California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and sold into administration as sled puppy in Alaska, he returns to a wild state. Buck is compelled to battle so as to command different canines in a brutal atmosphere. In the long run he sheds the lacquer of human progress, depending on primordial impulses and scholarly experience to rise as a pioneer in nature.