This part of the novel reverts backward in time, and, in addition, it makes a shift in the narrative point of view so that we now see events from the viewpoint of the she-wolf. It is not until Part Three of the novel, however, that we discover the name of the she-wolf — "Kiche" — and discover that the she-wolf was once a tame animal that now belongs to an Indian named Gray Beaver. Instead, Part Two concerns itself with showing the she-wolf in her own environment with a pack of wild wolves. In Part One, we saw that when the wolf pack was closing in on Henry for the kill, and that when the other men came to the rescue, "the pack was loath to forego the kill it had hunted down." In a like fashion, they work together as a group, tracking down a big bull moose, and London gives the reader a vivid description of the manner in which the wolf pack stalks and kills the bull moose.
After the pack is driven away, they break into smaller packs, and each pack goes its own way. At this time, the she-wolf attracts three males to her, one a very young three-year-old, who has just attained his adulthood, the second a mature wolf, and the third an old, one-eyed wolf, tattered from many fights.
There is famine in the land, and as long as the wolf pack works together, they survive, but as soon as the famine is over, fights begin for the attention of the she-wolf, and the inexperienced three-year-old is attacked by the old, one-eyed wolf and the mature wolf, and the two quickly destroy him. Then the old, one-eyed wolf, using his experience and trickery, catches the other wolf off-guard and kills him. He is now the sole companion of the she-wolf. Significantly, the she-wolf seems pleased by the death battles for her attention.
Together now, the two wolves roam the countryside stalking game, and it is the she-wolf who teaches the old wolf how to raid Indian traps. After some time, however, the she-wolf begins to grow "heavy and restless," and she begins to search for a nesting place where she can give birth to her litter. She finally finds a place under a rocky crag, close to a river, in a cave that gives her protection on three sides.
