Children of the Frost
Jack London's 1902 collection of Klondike stories, told largely from the perspective of Native peoples encountering white incomers rather than the other way round. The Law of Life, in which an old Inuit man is left behind by his band to die, is the best known and among the bleakest things London wrote. The collection is colder and more fatalistic than The Call of the Wild, and less interested in triumph.