And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. It's time for a Jack London story and

it kind of fits because we just wrapped up wider part 3 over 1001 heroes, Heroes, Legends, Histories and Mysteries, and at least a few years of

Wyadirp's life were spent up in the frozen Yukon, where he had the chance to meet a number

of people, the most notable being the aspiring writer, Jack London.

We have two Jack London stories for you today.

The first story called The Rainbow's End takes place in Alaska and the second story

Chun a chun takes place in Hawaii both are great short stories and I know you'll enjoy

them. It was for two reasons that Montana Kid discarded his

chaps and Mexican spurs and shook the dust of the Idaho ranges from his feet. In the

first place, the encroachments of a steady, sober, and sternly moral

civilization had destroyed the primeval status of the Western cattle ranges, and refined

society turned the cold eye of disfavor upon him and his ilk.

In the second place, in one of its cyclopian moments, the race had arisen and shoved back its frontier several thousand miles.

Thus, with unconscious foresight did mature society make room for its adolescent

members. True, the new territory was mostly barren, but its several

hundred thousand square miles of frigidity at least gave breathing space to those who else

would have suffocated back home.

Montana Kid was such a one.

Heading for the sea coast with a haste several sheriff's posses might possibly have explained

and with more nerve than coin of the realm

He succeeded in shipping from a Puget Soundport and managed to survive the contingent miseries of

Sturage sea sickness and steerage grub. He was rather

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