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"We are strongly tempted to characterize it as the best book about dogs that we have ever read." -Syracuse Herald (1903)"No one interested in dogs or in animal character can afford to leave this book unread." -The Book Buyer (1903) "Call of the Wild is one of Jack London's best books...based...on the autobiographical work My Dogs in the Northland." - 1000 Questions About Canada (2001) "Nobody knows any better how to tell any kind of a story than Egerton Young...no parallel in the annals of dog-history." -Woman's Missionary Friend (1902)In 1907, Mrs. Bosworth of Eureka, Kansas, would start an international literary firestorm with her letter published in the New York Independent accusing Jack London of plagiarizing his best novel "The Call of the Wild" from Egerton Ryerson Young's 1902 biographical book "My Dogs in the Northland." The similarities between portions of the books were indeed striking.Mrs. Bosworth was not the only one to recognize the similarities between the two books. Egerton Ryerson Young himself would tell the New York Independent that "when I read 'The Call of the Wild,' of course I noticed the similarity in much that was in it, to what, from my long experience, I had written." Forced to respond to the criticism, Jack London would admit that "so far as concerns the source of much of my material in 'The Call of the Wild' being Egerton R. Young's 'My Dogs in the Northland,' I plead guilty." London would then offer the defense that "to charge plagiarism in such a case is to misuse the English language. To be correct, 'sources of materials used' in The Call of the Wild, should be substituted for 'Plagiarism.'"After reading Young's "My Dogs in the North," one can certainly see why London would see in Young's true life story the "source material" for one of the greatest adventure novels of all time (which in 2020 was made into a major blockbuster movie starring Harrison Ford).Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909), for years lived with the Saulteaux and Cree Indians in the subarctic regions of Winnipeg Lake and the Red River of the North where he faced the hardships and privations, traveling several thousands of miles each year, in winter with dog sleds and in the summers in a birch canoe. During these tours by canoe and dog sledge he had ample opportunities for studying the Native Americans and sled dogs which he incorporated into his classic biographical work "My Dogs in the North Land." The many exciting incidents and thrilling adventures of this period of his life have been described in vivid detail of an experienced and expert story-teller. He has a charming and at times a thrilling story-telling style. He vividly describes one memorable run-in with a vicious dog, Jack: "Just as viciously as before he sprang at my throat. I am confident that if I had slipped or missed him, he would have killed me. But I did not miss him. My muscles were strong and hardened by the vigorous exercise of that wild Northland....Again and again he came for me..."Later this same dog, Jack, as lead sled dog would save Young's life. Young faced a trip of sixty or seventy miles across Lake Winnipeg in a blizzard so blinding that he could not even see the dogs in front of the sled. There was imminent danger of death in such a storm, but Jack, the leader, made his way unguided to an Indian encampment and Young was saved.The dogs portrayed in "My Dogs of the North" are no pampered creatures of the drawing-room, but rather valiant, industrious, hardy and sometimes near to being human.Other works by the author include: •By Canoe and Dog-Train •Stories from Indian Wigwams •Oowikapun •On the Indian Trail •The Apostle of the North, James Evans •Algonquin Indian Tales

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