Still there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
Born in the wild, a young wolf-dog cub is the sole survivor of a litter birthed by a she-wolf. Together Mother and cub fight for survival in the harsh Klondike wilderness. Forging forward with their natural instincts as their guides, the two come across a group of aboriginal humans. One human named Grey Beaver recognizes the she-wolf as his brother’s wolf-dog he had lost many years ago. With this knowledge, Grey Beaver adopts both the Mother and her cub, which he christens with the name White Fang.