Jack London's story, Call of the Wild, tells of Buck, a dog stolen from California who is taken to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s. Buck becomes a sled dog, part of a team that transports supplies and people through the harsh winters. Chapter III The Dominant Primordial Beast It was inevitable that the clash for leadership should come. Buck wanted it. He wanted it because it was his nature, because he had been gripped tight by that nameless, incom- prehensible pride of the trail and trace that pride which holds dogs in the toil to the last gasp, which lures them to die joyfully in the harness, and breaks their hearts if they are cut out of the harness. This was the pride of Dave as wheel-dog, of Sol-leks as he pulled with all his strength; the pride that laid hold of them at break of camp, transforming them from sour and sullen brutes into straining, eager, ambitious creatures; the pride that spurred them on all day and dropped them at pitch of camp at night, letting them fall back into gloomy unrest and uncontent. This was the pride that bore up Spitz and made him thrash the sled-dogs who blundered and shirked in the traces or hid away at Historic photograph of an harness-up time in the morning. Likewise it was this Alaskan dog sled team pride that made him fear Buck as a possible lead-dog. And this was Buck's pride, too. Find the Main Idea Write the main idea of the paragraph in your own words.