The “ghost dog” is a beast that is talked about by the Yeehat Indians. They talk about him as being a ghost because they only see glimpses of him and no one is totally certain that he exists.
After Buck’s disappearance into the wild, they talk about a change in the appearance of the timber wolves they see. It appears that Buck had been breeding with the wolves, as they started to be seen “with splashes of brown on head and muzzle, and with a rift of white centering down the chest.”
They talked about a wolf who would lead the pack and who lived in a place where streams of yellow flowed “from rotted moose-hide sacks,” clearly the place where John Thornton was killed. This special wolf is bigger than the other wolves and is even suspected of killing lost hunters who wander into the valley where Thornton was killed.
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