The Faith of Men is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London’s adventure tales, all of them set in London’s favorite milieu - the Yukon Territory.
“A Relic of the Pliocene” concerns a “homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced” hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth.
“A Hyperborean Brew” also concerns Thomas Stevens and his schemes.
“In Batard,” an evil master makes a monster of an evil dog.
Other stories included are
“The Faith of Men”, “Too Much Gold”, “The One Thousand Dozen”, “The Marriage of Lit-Lit”, “Batard” and “The Story of Jees Uck”.
