The Baggage Man

The Baggage Man is a supporting antagonist in Jack London's 1903 short adventure novel The Call of the Wild. He is a smuggler who wants to sell Buck to Seattle.

He was portrayed by Deano Clavet in Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon.

History
During Buck's life in Santa Clara Valley at Judge Miller's place, he is stolen by the gardener's assistant named Manuel and is sold to the Baggage Man to Seattle. Buck had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command. But to his surprise the rope tightened around his neck, shutting off his breath. In a quick rage he sprang at the man, who met him halfway, grappled him close by the throat, and with a deft twist threw him over on his back. Never in all his life had he been so vilely treated, and never in all his life had he been so angry. But his strength ebbed, his eyes glazed, and he knew nothing when the train was flagged and the two men threw him into the baggage car.

The next day, the Baggage Man then sells Buck to a saloon keeper. They continued to torment him and starve him until they sell him to The Man in the Red Sweater. Buck tries to attack him, but the man beats him and Buck has learned the law of the club.

Buck is then later sold to a pair of French-Canadian mailers named Francois and Perrault and he, along with Curly, are taken to the Yukon on the Narwal.

Trivia

 * In the 1997 TV movie Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon, Buck is sold to the Man in the Red Sweater after the Baggage Man, instead of being sold to a saloon keeper then the Red Sweater.