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'''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.
'''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.
'''Dub''': Dub is an awkward dog who often gets caught and framed at the wrong time.
'''Pike''': Pike is one of the more recent dogs to be added to Perrault and Francois's team. He's known to be a clever thief and a late riser.
'''Dolly''': Dolly is the second-to-last female dog added to the team after Curly. She becomes rabid one day and lunges at Buck - the closest dog to her - but is mercy-killed by Francois.
===Humans===
===Humans===
'''Perrault and Francois''': Perrault and Francois are the two French-Canadian men who bought Buck and Curly for their sledding team.
'''Perrault and Francois''': Perrault and Francois are the two French-Canadian men who bought Buck and Curly for their sledding team. They are shown to be fair but stern with their dogs, disciplining Buck for his earlier mishaps but also disciplining Spitz for his bullying ways.
'''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.
'''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. Not helping matters is Mercedes loading the others down with tantrums due to having lived a pampered life. They also ignore the advice of John Thorton and other expert explorers, the former warning them about the thinning ice at a river. When Buck doesn't rise, Hal starts beating him only to be punched in return by Thorton as the latter takes Buck under his care, and 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.
'''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. He also places good faith in Buck, believing that he could pull a thousand pounds on a sled over a hundred yards (which he does and is praised for).
'''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.
'''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/Scotch shepherd 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.
In 1996, there is a film adaptation called ''Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon'' which portrays Buck as a Leonberger. This version of Buck also has a son named White Fang (the name of the protagonist in ''White Fang'').
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.