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Article: Jack London's legacy continues at vineyard on Sonoma Mountain.(Food)(Good wine)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2003
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Byline: Mary Ross
In 1905, when "Call of the Wild" made him a wealthy man, Jack London purchased 130 acres in the hills north of San Francisco. His death in 1916 robbed the world of America's most prodigious author and social commentator, but not before London's Beauty Ranch had grown to 1,400 acres on Sonoma Mountain, outside the town of Sonoma within Sonoma Valley, known to the native Miwok Indians as Valley of the Moon.
Here he began "White Fang," completed "Burning Daylight," "Valley of the Moon" and more. He wrote 1,000 words daily, carried on voluminous correspondence, debated and socialized in local barrooms, rode horseback and hiked throughout ...