After participating in the Alaska gold rush, he returned to San Francisco & wrote "The Son of the Wolf" in 1900
He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, 
such as his ... he quit school at Berkeley and went to the Klondike during the gold 
rush... [DOC] [TLE] The Call of the Wild - NEA Big Read [PAR] He left Berkeley after one semester, tried to earn money by writing, and worked ...