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'''Billie and Joe''': Billie and Joe are two brothers whom Francois and Perrault buy after the death of Curly. These brothers are as different as day and night in personality. Billie is very friendly and playful yet cries easily, while Joe is aggressive and grouchy; even Joe was able to keep the bullying Spitz at bay.
'''Billie and Joe''': Billie and Joe are two brothers whom Francois and Perrault buy after the death of Curly. These brothers are as different as day and night in personality. Billie is very friendly and playful yet cries easily, while Joe is aggressive and grouchy; even Joe was able to keep the bullying Spitz at bay.
'''Sol-leks''': Sol-leks is an old dog bought shortly after Billie and Joe join the team. His name means "the angry one", and he hates being approached by his blind side - literally so, since he's blind in one eye. The one dog he gets along with the most is Dave, whom he shares the duty of pulling the sled from the front, and thus doesn't care that Buck gets to be leader instead of him.
===Humans===
===Humans===
'''John Thorton''': John Thorton is Buck's final master, a man exploring the Yukon for gold. He rescues Buck when the latter is being savagely beaten by Hal and nurses the dog back to health. Buck and Thorton display a strange way of affection: Buck would bite his hand, and Thorton would lavish him with curses and insults in a loving way.
'''Perrault and Francois''': Perrault and Francois are the two French-Canadian men who bought Buck and Curly for their sledding team.
'''Hal, Mercedes, and Charles''': These three are an inexperienced trio of greenhorns who buy Buck and his team from the mail delivery. Charles and Mercedes are a married couple, and Hal is Mercedes's brother. Having experience with neither sledding nor dogs, they wear the already worn-down team down even more. Buck is finally rescued by John Thorton, who punches Hal for beating Buck with a club, but the greenhorns and what remains of the original team by Perrault and Francois drown in the river.
'''John Thorton''': John Thorton is Buck's final master, a man exploring the Yukon for gold. He rescues Buck when the latter is being savagely beaten by Hal (threatening to kill him if he struck Buck again) and nurses the dog back to health. Buck and Thorton display a strange way of affection: Buck would bite his hand, and Thorton would lavish him with curses and insults in a loving way.
'''The Yeehats''': The Yeehats are a fictional Native American tribe known for their violent ways. Near the end of the novel, they kill John Thorton and his companions (as well as his two dogs), but they end up getting massacred left and right by an extremely vengeful Buck.
==Film adaptations==
==Film adaptations==
In 1980, an anime film in Japan was released, called ''Howl, Buck!'' The film also changes Buck's breed from a Saint Bernard/collie mix to a German shepherd.
In 1980, an anime film in Japan was released, called ''Howl, Buck!'' The film also changes Buck's breed from a Saint Bernard/Scotch shepherd mix to a German shepherd.
The most recent adaptation was released in 2020, distributed by Disney and 20th Century Fox. This adaptation has the dogs and other animals be entirely CGI while the human actors stayed in live-action. Story changes include Hal becoming the main antagonist of the film, the fate of Spitz (he was killed in the book but lives to limp away in this film), and Buck being guided by a black wolf spirit representing his wild instincts.
The most recent adaptation was released in 2020, distributed by Disney and 20th Century Fox. This adaptation has the dogs and other animals be entirely CGI while the human actors stayed in live-action. Story changes include Hal becoming the main antagonist of the film, the fate of Spitz (he was killed in the book but lives to limp away in this film), and Buck being guided by a black wolf spirit representing his wild instincts.