The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke

Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.

Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes:

“London's true métier was the short story …. London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming b...