Jack London 
All Gold Canyon 
Westernklassiker im Original

It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little sheltered nook and filling it to the brim with sweetness and roundness and softness. Here all things rested. Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush long enough to form a quiet pool. Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated, many-antlered buck.

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Jack London (geb. 12. Januar 1876 in San Francisco als John Griffith Chaney; gest. 22. November 1916 in Glen Ellen, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Journalist.