White
Two outdoorsmen are out in the wild of the
north. They are on a mission
to deliver the body and coffin of a famous
person. Their dogs disappear as they
are entised by a she-wolf and eaten by
the rest of the pack. They only have
three rounds of ammunition left and
Bill, one of the men, uses them to try to
save one of their dogs that is
being attacked; he misses and is eaten by the
pack with the dog. Only Henry
and two dogs are left; he makes a fire with leaves
and scattered branches,
trying to drive away the wolves. They draw in close and
he is almost eaten,
saved only by a company of men who were traveling nearby.
The wolves are
in the midst of a starvation. They continue on running and
hunting, lead by
several wolves alongside the she-wolf, and when they finally
find food the
pack starts to split up. The she-wolf mates with one of the wolves
and has a
litter of pups inside an abandoned cave. Only one survives after
several more
famines and harsh weather, and he grows strong and is a feisty pup.
The
puppy learns the basics of hunting and survival. They come to an
Indian
village where the she-wolf's (who is actually half-wolf, half-dog)
master is. He
catches her again and White Fang, her pup, stays nearby. Soon,
she is sold to
another Indian, while White Fang stays with Gray Beaver, her
master. White fang
whines and cries but it does'nt help. The other dogs of
the village terrorize
White Fang, especially one named Lip-lip, who for
now is bigger and stronger.
White Fang becomes more and more vicious,
more like a wolf than a dog,
encouraged by his master who beats him. One day
he meets is mother and is turned
to a light-hearted pup but, his mother
does'nt even notice him. He kills other
dogs that used to terroize him. Gray
Beaver goes to Fort Yukon to trade and
discovers whiskey, which he calls
sweet water. White Fang is passed into the
hands of Beauty Smith, a monster
of a man who got Grey Beaver drunk and tricked
him into selling Whit Fang.
Beaty Smith put White Fang ino dogfighting and he
fights other dogs until he
meets his match in a bulldog from the east and is
saved only by a man named
Scott. Scott tames White Fang and takes him back to
California with him.
There White Fang learns to love his master and his master's
family, who dont
take kindly to him at first, and even saves Scott's father in
the middle of
the night from a convict that escaped from the nearby prison.
White Fang
has puppies with Collie, one of the master's dogs, and lives a
happy
life.