And the Yeah, Welcome everyone to this special presentation of 1001 greatest love stories and the story to come

tonight is actually a great love story written by none other than Jack London

story that takes us up to the Alaskan Wilderness. We've put together a lot of great

classic short stories at 1001 Greatest Love stories and all we ask is that you give

it a try. And now we offer a summary at the night's story and then our story. We hope you enjoy it.

Tonight's Story, The Night Born by Jack London.

At the beginning of the second decade of the 20th century, a couple of worn-out gold prospectors

are swapping drinks and stories at a tavern in San Francisco.

They made decent fortunes in the Alaska and Yukon Gold Rush, but the effort sucked most of the life out of them.

One by the name of Trepethyn is 47, but as he says, he looks 10 years older.

The weary Fortune Hunter remembers back to 1898, 12 years before when he crossed the Canadian

Rockies east of Alaska territory and much to a surprise, deep in the wild interior.

He met a woman.

She was certainly no ordinary woman.

No ordinary woman would have survived for years out here, a thousand miles from civilization.

She was hunting and trapping and living free and independently

where hardly any white men had ever gone and the local natives respected and obeyed

her. And that brings us to tonight's story, the Night Born by Jack London.

It was in the old Alta Inyo Club, a warm night for San Francisco,

and through the open windows hushed and far came the

brawl of the streets. The talk had led on from the graft prosecution and the

latest signs that the town was to be run wide open, down through all the grotesque

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