The Call of the Wild

Billee is a husky on Buck's sled team in The Call of the Wild, one of two brothers brought into the team, known for his excessive good nature and his appeasing, tail-wagging eagerness to keep the peace.

Buck is a powerful Saint Bernard and Scotch shepherd mix in The Call of the Wild, stolen from a comfortable California estate and sold north to serve as a sled dog during the Klondike gold rush.

Charles is a middle-aged newcomer in The Call of the Wild who, with his young brother-in-law Hal, buys Buck and his sled team at Skaguay, a man with weak, watery eyes who is manifestly out of place on the North trail.

The Chief of the Yeehats is the leader of the Yeehats, a hunting people of the far North who follow the migrating moose, in The Call of the Wild by Jack London.

Curly is a good-natured Newfoundland who travels north with Buck aboard the Narwhal in The Call of the Wild, a large, friendly dog whose openness stands out among the wolfish huskies of the Klondike trail.

Dave is a sled dog in The Call of the Wild, a gloomy, morose animal who wants only to be left alone yet is transformed by the harness into a fiercely proud and expert wheel-dog.

Dolly is a husky on the sled team Buck joins in The Call of the Wild by Jack London, the last dog added to the team at Dyea.

Dub is a sled dog on Buck's team in The Call of the Wild, an awkward blunderer who is always getting caught and punished yet remains a faithful worker through the hardships of the Klondike trail.

Francois is a French-Canadian dog-driver in The Call of the Wild who, with the courier Perrault, runs the government mail team and teaches the newly enslaved Buck the harness and the trail.

Hal is a callow young newcomer of nineteen or twenty in The Call of the Wild who, with his brother-in-law Charles, buys Buck and his team at Skaguay to attempt the North trail despite being plainly out of place there.

Hans is one of John Thornton's two partners in The Call of the Wild by Jack London, a steady frontiersman who arrives by raft and works the rope alongside Pete on the rivers of the Klondike.

Joe is a husky on Buck's sled team in The Call of the Wild, the sour, introspective brother of Billee, marked by a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye that even the team's leader learns to leave alone.

John Thornton is a seasoned Klondike prospector in The Call of the Wild who rescues the starving sled dog Buck from cruel owners, becoming the first master Buck loves rather than merely obeys.

Judge Miller is the owner of the large California estate in the Santa Clara Valley where Buck lives as a pampered, free-ranging dog at the start of The Call of the Wild by Jack London.

The Lost Mine is a fabled gold mine of the Northland in The Call of the Wild by Jack London, sought by many men and found by few, its site marked by an ancient ramshackle cabin.

Manuel is a gardener's helper on Judge Miller's California estate in The Call of the Wild whose gambling debts drive him to steal Buck and sell him into the northbound dog trade.

Mercedes is a newcomer to the North in The Call of the Wild, the wife of Charles and sister of Hal, a pretty, sentimental woman whose constant chatter and tenderness toward the dogs do little to help her family's ill-prepared expedition.

Nig is a huge black dog, half bloodhound and half deerhound, belonging to John Thornton in The Call of the Wild by Jack London, a friendly animal with laughing eyes who befriends Buck.

Perrault is a French-Canadian government courier in The Call of the Wild who buys Buck in Seattle and drives a fast sled team carrying urgent despatches across the frozen North.

Pete is one of John Thornton's two partners in The Call of the Wild by Jack London, a calm, capable frontiersman who arrives by raft with Hans and works the rope on the Klondike's rivers.

Pike is one of the sled dogs on the team Buck joins in The Call of the Wild, a clever malingerer and thief who shirks work and slyly steals food whenever the drivers' backs are turned.

Skeet is a little Irish setter belonging to John Thornton in The Call of the Wild by Jack London, a good-natured dog who early makes friends with Buck and dotes on her master.

Sol-leks is a one-eyed veteran sled dog in The Call of the Wild whose name means the Angry One, an old, scarred husky who asks nothing of the team and lives only for the toil of the traces.

Spitz is the fierce lead dog of the sled team in The Call of the Wild, a big snow-white veteran from Spitzbergen whose mastery of the team sets him in bitter rivalry with the newcomer Buck.

Teek is a husky obtained at the Rink Rapids and added to the sled team in The Call of the Wild by Jack London, a newer dog who pulls in harness alongside Buck.

The timber wolf is a long, lean wild wolf that Buck encounters in the northern forest in The Call of the Wild by Jack London, drawn out of the trees by the howling call of the wild.