#OTD in 1903.
Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild begins serial publication in the Saturday Evening Post.
London wrote a short story about a dog named Bâtard who, at the end of the story, kills his master. London's biographer, Earle Labor, says that London then began work on The Call of the Wild to "redeem the species" from his dark characterization of dogs in "Bâtard".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild
The Call of the Wild at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/215