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Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

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by James L. Haley Coffin

“Devil’s Dice Box, The” (London)

  “Diable—A Dog” (London)

  Dirigo (tall ship)

  Du Chaillu, Paul

  Dunn, Robert L.

  Eames, Ninetta

  about

  Beauty Ranch and

  Flora London and

  London and

  Overland Monthly and

  running London’s business

  Eames, Roscoe

  about

  Snark and

  Earthquake, San Francisco

  Education of London

  Berkeley

  childhood

  dictionary studies

  Oakland Public Library

  preparatory school/dismissal

  Education of London/high school

  Aegis pieces

  dropping out

  family preparation for

  Henry Clay (debate) Club

  janitor work and

  overview

  socialism and

  Edward VII, King

  Ellis, Havelock

  Erie County Penitentiary

  Eucalyptus trees

  Everhard, Mary

  Every Week (journal)

  Excelsior (steamship)

  Farr, Albert

  Financial panic (1873)

  Financial Panic of 1893

  about

  Coxey ’s army and

  Coxey’s “Good Roads” bill and

  Kelly ’s army and

  Fire near Glen Ellen

  Fiske, Minnie Maddern

  Flynt, Josiah

  Following the Color Line (Baker)

  France, Anatole

  French, Nora May

  “French Frank,”

  Funston, Frederick

  Game, The (London)

  Garfield, James

  Garlick, Mr.

  Genthe, Arnold

  Ghent, William J.

  God of His Fathers, The (London)

  Godfrey-Smith, Laurie

  Gold rush

  boat building/denuding forest

  drownings

  folly of

  horses and

  Klondikers madness/suicides

  scurvy (“Klondike Plague”)

  success stories

  Gold rush/London

  alcohol and

  Belle of the Yukon

  boat building

  claim

  coal shoveling on return trip

  conversations/socialism

  dog named Jack

  helping Rett/family

  James Shepard and

  portages

  return home

  scurvy

  spring thaw

  summary

  supplies/books

  travels

  water travel/dangers

  winter

  Yukon Belle

  Goldman, Emma

  Goldstein, Vida

  Goodman, Jim

  Grant, Laura

  Grape juice company

  Great Interrogation, The (Bascom)

  Griscom, Lloyd

  Hancock, F. G.

  Hare, Jimmy

  Hargrave, W. B. “Bert,”

  Harnish, Elam

  Harper’s

  Harte, Bret

  Harvey, B. F.

  Hashish

  Haw, George

  Hawthorne, Julian

  “Haydee,”

  Healey, “Spider,”

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Hedgewar, Rashtra Rishi

  Heinold, “Johnny,” See also J. M. Heinold Saloon

  Hittell, Kitty

  H.M.S. Blossom

  Hobron, Thomas

  Homosexuality

  London on

  prisoners and

  sailors and

  Sea-Wolf, The (London) and

  tramps and See also specific individuals

  “Homosexuality Among Tramps” (Flynt)

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Hopper, Jimmy

  ”Crowd, The,”

  London and

  Houdini, Harry

  Houghton-Mifflin

  “House of Pride, The” (London)

  “How I Became a Socialist” (London)

  Hula (Armine von Tempsky)

  Idler (sloop)

  “Impossibility of War, The” (London)

  Industrial Army of the Unemployed (Coxey ’s army/marchers)

  International Workers of the World

  Inuit culture

  Iron Heel, The (London)

  Irvine, Alexander

  Isidro (Austin)

  ISS

  Jack London and His Times ( Joan London)

  Jack London State Park

  Jacobs, Fred

  James, George W harton

  Japan and Hawaii

  Japan-Russian war See also War correspondent job/London

  Jeffries, Jim

  Jensen, Emil

  Jerry of the Islands (London)

  J. M. Heinold Saloon

  John Barleycorn (London)

  Johns, Cloudesley

  fan letter to London

  London friendship

  Los Angeles life/politics

  Johnson, Jack

  Johnson, Martin Elmer

  after voyage

  Snark voyage

  Johnson, Osa Leighty

  “Joy of Small-Boat Sailing, The” (London)

  Judge, Father

  Jung, Carl

  Jungle, The (Sinclair)

  Kaleleonalani, Queen Emma

  Kant, Immanuel

  Keigo Maru (steamship)

  Kelly, Charles

  Kelly’s Army

  Kempton-Wace Letters, The (London/Strunsky)

  Kidd, Benjamin

  King, Cameron

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kirk, E. E.

  Kittredge, Charmian

  background

  Bess London and

  description/personality See also London, Charmian

  Kittredge, Charmian/London

  early relationship

  horses/riding horses

  London defending

  London’s work and

  lovers/mates

  Partington and

  wedding

  Komura, Jutaro

  “Koolau the Leper” (London)

  Korea See also War correspondent job/London

  Kuroki, Tamemoto

  Lafitte, Jean

  Lancet (journal)

  Land of Little Rain (Austin)

  Lanier, Henry

  Lead poisoning

  LeGrant, Charley/Lizzie

  Lepers/leper colony

  “Lepers of Molokai, The” (London)

  Lewis, Austin

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Carmel colony and

  London and

  Yale University and

  Liliuokalani, Queen

  Lincoln, Mary Todd

  Little Lady of the Big House, The (London)

  Livingston, Leon R.

  Log of the Snark (Charmian London)

  London, Becky

  London, Bessie

  “Crowd, The,”

  divorce suit/settlement

  personality

  separation from London

  wedding/marriage to London See also Maddern, Bessie

  London, Charmian

  after Jack’s death

  Carrie Sterling and

  Jack’s alcohol binge

  Jack’s infidelities and

  Jack’s temper

  miscarriage

  Partington and

  pregnancy

  Strunsky and See also Kittredge, Charmian

  London, Charmian/Jack

  boxing

  Dirigo trip

  earthquake

  godchild

  honeymoon

  loss of daughter

  Mexico

  New York trip (1912)

  returns to Hawaii

  vacation (1911)

  wedding
/>   writing work and

  London, Eliza See also Shepard, Eliza

  London, Flora

  Bessie and

  death

  description/personality

  family finances/schemes and

  house Jack bought for

  Ida’s child and

  Jack helping

  Jack’s writing and

  racism of

  spiritualism and

  taking money from Jack

  visit to see Jack/Charmian See also Wellman, Flora

  London, Ida See also Miller, Ida

  London, Jack

  alleged racism and

  bar fight/trial

  candy/sweet tooth

  Chaney contacts/information

  daughters and

  death/cause

  depression of

  description

  eating raw meat

  FBI and

  health decline

  hemorrhoids/surgery

  his illegitimacy and

  infidelities and

  love of animals

  nude photographs of

  plans for taking mistress

  soul mate desires

  suicidal thoughts

  tour of Europe

  trip to New York/woman on train

  work at steam laundry

  London, Jack, as writer

  Aegis pieces

  buying plot ideas

  contests

  correspondence from strangers

  daily writing output

  early submissions/rejections

  photograph and

  typewriters

  U.S. Post Office job vs. See also specific works

  London, Jack/childhood

  alcohol

  birth/name

  boat of (first)

  Bonanza (whaler)

  California Fish Patrol

  education/books

  fighting

  hobo gangs and

  hunting

  “Jack” name

  love of the sea/nature

  money for Razzle Dazzle

  moves

  Prentisses and

  relationship with stepfather

  summer with Atherton

  work of

  London, Joan

  London, John

  background

  death

  disability/health

  moves/work

  stepson and

  London Daily Telegraph

  Longford, Raymond

  Loring, Georgia See also Bamford, Georgia

  Los Angeles Times

  Loughead, Flora Hines

  MacGowan sisters

  Macmillan, Alexander

  Macmillan & Co.

  socialism See also Brett, George P.

  Maddern, Bessie See also London, Bessie

  “Madness of John Harned, The” (London)

  Magnus, Maurice

  “Mamie” (Queen of the Oyster Pirates)

  Man Jesus, The (Austin)

  Manyoungi

  in Korea

  London firing

  in U.S.

  Martin Eden (London)

  Martínez, Xavier

  McCarthy era (1950s)

  McClure Phillips & Co.

  McIntosh, H.D.

  McLean, Alexander

  McVeigh, John Devine “Jack,”

  Mexican civil war/covering

  Miller, Ida See also London, Ida

  Miller, Joaquin

  Miller, Johnny

  Millergraph business

  Milner, Charles

  Monahan, Michael

  Moon-Face and Other Stories (London)

  Muldowney, Tim

  Mutiny of the Elsinore

  Nakata, Yoshimatsu

  Nelson, “Old Scratch,”

  Nelson, Oscar “Battling,”

  Nelson, “ Young Scratch,”

  Neuadd Hillside (horse)

  New York Herald

  New York Times

  Niagara Falls and London

  Nietzsche, Friedrich philosophy

  Nightingale, Florence

  Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell)

  Noel, Joseph

  London and

  Millergraph business

  “Nose for the King, A” (London)

  Oakland, San Leandro, and Haywards Electric Railway

  Oakland history

  Oakland Public Library

  Coolbrith and

  London and

  Oldfield, Barney

  Orfans, Spiro

  Orwell, George (Eric Arthur Blair)

  Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé)

  Our Benevolent Feudalism (Ghent)

  Outing Magazine

  Overland Monthly

  editors

  London and

  Oyster farms

  California Fish Commission/Patrol and

  history

  Oyster pirates

  dangers for

  London (Prince of the Oyster Pirates)

  overview

  Pacific Monthly

  Palmer, Fred

  Panic of 1893. See Financial Panic of 1893

  Papyrus (periodical)

  Parker, W. B.

  Parsons, Lucy

  Partington, Blanche

  Parton, Lem

  Payne, Edward

  Peano, Felix

  Peggy (dog)

  People of the Abyss (London)

 

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