While in Korea, London learned how to put cold shoes on his horse. This was one of the many new experiences Jack had as he rode horseback day and night. He traveled through snow that had melted into mud that was up to Belle’s belly and was proud that he never lost a horseshoe. After four months in Korea, Jack completed his newspaper assignment and wrote to his book publisher, “Can say that I know a lot more about horses than when I started.”

Now, Jack had reached a place of frustrations in his personal life that eventually led to a divorce and created a lack of direction. When he returned from Korea as a war correspondent, one of his editors, Ninetta Eames, invited him to spend time in the countryside of Glen Ellen to think about his future. Little did Jack London know that when he boarded the passenger train in Oakland and traveled through the Valley of the Moon in Northern California that his life would change in unexpected ways.