One time period, but no relation
Some kind of small addition to my previous posts about Call of the Wild and White Fang. To my surprise, for whatever reason some people unironically thought that White Fang and Call of the Wild are connected, and Call of the Wild is a prequel to White Fang or vice versa, and that Buck and White Fang can be somehow related. My brain just exploded with big WTF, since I knew these books since deep childhood. I guess, partially this misconception exists due to 30s and 70s adaptations and due to a mirror in protagonists' journey and themes in the books — in Call of the Wild the dog protagonist becomes wild and starts to live with wolves, in White Fang the wolf protagonist is torn from wilderness and lives with humans. But it is on surface level. White Fang is about the tragic path of the wolf, who lost his family and was forced to live among humans, how he was corrupted with hatred due to cruel humans, and how the kindness of another human healed the wolf, so that caused the loyalty and bond between White Fang an Weedon Scott. Call of The Wild is about how the dog was torn from good life in south, stolen and sold, fought other dogs, defeating Spitz, lost even his last owner, who saved him and was kind to him, so Buck was in despair, it was the last what was holding him among humans, so he chose wolves, who accepted him in this cruel world, where you should survive.
Whether White Fang and Call of the Wild are two separated stories or happen in one universe, it is entirely possible, since the events happen during The Golden Rush (1896-1899), but after checking the books I can confidently tell that chronologically they happen almost at the same time. So, just for a summary, several moments from both these books, which debunk the idea of White Fang being the direct sequel of Call of the Wild or vice versa, and they have no connections, except of the Alaska setting and the period of The Golden Rush. 1. The Call of the Wild begins in autumn of 1897, and Buck is already 4 y/o, he gets stolen and lives several weeks or months in Alaska as a sled dog, until he joins the wolf pack, becomes their leader and even has pups with she-wolf from this pack. 2. White Fang book at first doesn't state the date, when it happens, but later the book mentions that Grey Beaver and White Fang arrive to Yukon in summer of 1898. At this time White Fang is 5 y/o, leading the sled dog team for 3 years already. And White Fang saw white people for the first time in his life and watched, how these humans take dogs from South from ships and sell them as sled dogs for gold-hunting etc. So, the book in fact starts in 1893. So, in this case, White Fang and Buck are almost of the same age, if not of the same age. 3. White Fang's human family is Scott's family, and they live in San Francisco. Buck's human family is Miller's family, and they live in California. So, these moments are enough for debunking the idea of these two books or specifically the canine characters being somehow blood related.
