to more far-flung places such as Alaska. Indeed, many more of his stories were set in the Klondike, perhaps because Bret Harte had made California mining towns his own in his stories. Another reason might be that even in the wilds of California, Harte felt too close to civilization for the sort of wilderness he needed in many of his stories. In Son of the Wolf, for instance, where some of the author's Northland heroes are featured:
London's Northland heroes were. . . a ruggedly independence yet a remarkably compassionate breed who paid allegiance only to the inexorable laws of nature and to the authority of conscience, but
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