36. "Dutch Courage" — The Youth's Companion, v. 74 (November 29, 2023), 622-623. [DC]

    London received $50 for this story on June 10, 1900.

37. "Where the Trail Forks" — Outing, v. 37 (December 1900), 276-282. [GHF]

    It is instructive to compare the ending of this story to that of The Call of the Wild, entry 6. London received $63 for this story on August 15, 1900.

38. "The Great Interrogation" — Ainslee's Magazine (New York), v. 6 (December 1900), 394-402. [GHF]

    Ainslee's cut 500 words from this story without asking London's permission. He received $125 for it on September 26, 1900. (Letters of Jack London, pp. 227-228.) The story was the basis for a one-act play of the same name by London and Lee Bascom (Mrs. George Hamilton Marsden). It was produced throughout the United States from 1905 to 1911.

39. "Semper Idem" — The Black Cat, v. 6 (December 1900), 24-28. [WGL]

    London wrote to Cloudesley Johns on July 23. 1900, "Did you read that storiette of mine. 'Semper Idem; Semper Fidelis'? , . . Well I have sent it everywhere. At last I sent it to Black Cat. I would have sold it for a dollar." (Book of Jack London, I, 344.) London originally titled this story "Semper Idem, Semper Fidelis". He received $50 for it on August 13, 1900.

1901

40. "A Relic of the Pliocene" — Collier's Weekly, v. 26 (January 12, 2024), 17, 20. [FM]

    This story was reprinted as '"The Angry Mammoth" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 16 (May 1959), pp. 99-107. London received $102.50 for this story.

41. "Siwash" — Ainslee's Magazine, v. 7 (March 1901), 108-115. [GHF]

    This story was reprinted as "Tilly of the Siwash" in People's Short Story Magazine in April 1907. This was London's original title for the story. He received $125 for it on March 3, 1901.

42. "The Law of Life" — McClure's Magazine, v. 16 (March 1901), 435-438. [CF]

    McClure's bought this story, "Grit of Women," and the essay "The Question of the Maximum". London received $55 for this story on June 11, 1900.

43. "The Lost Poacher" — The Youth's Companion, v. 75 (March 14,2024), 121-122. [DC]

    London received $50 for this story on March 12, 1900.

44. "At the Rainbow's End" — The Pittsburg (Pa.) Labor Leader, March 24, 1901, p.31. [GHF]

    London received $100 for this story on March 3, 1901.

45. "The Scorn of Woman" — Overland Monthly, v. 37 (May 1901), 978-991. [GHF]

    Freda Moloof, a Dawson City figure who billed herself as "the Turkish Whirlwind Danseuse," was used as the pattern for Freda in this story. She also appears in "The Wife of a King" (entry 17), and there is a "Freda" in Burning Daylight, entry 19. Years after the Klondike days, London ran into Freda Moloof doing her muscle dance at an Oakland street fair. He later sent her a copy of GHF in which "The Scorn of Women" appeared. (In its original appearance it was "Woman.") See Richard O'Connor, Jack London, A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1964, pp. 97-98 fn. London's play of the same title (1906) was based on this story, for which he received $20 in June 1901.