Jack London 
The Faith of Men 

‚The Faith of Men‘ is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London’s adventure tales, all of them set in London’s favorite milieu — the Yukon Territory. ‚A Relic of the Pliocene‘ concerns a ‚homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced‘ hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth. ‚A Hyperborean Brew‘ also concerns Thomas Stevens and his schemes. ‚In Batard, ‚ an evil master makes a monster of an evil dog. Other stories included are ‚The Faith of Men, ‚ ‚Too Much Gold, ‚ ‚The One Thousand Dozen, ‚ ‚The Marriage of Lit-Lit, ‚ ‚Batard, ‚ and ‚The Story of Jees Uck.‘