arriving on the west coast, natty's journey takes several more challenging turns. harry finds work through the federal works progress administration in san francisco, but she declines his invitation to go with him, preferring to find her father. the logging operation does not list sol gann among their workers, but natty is undeterred, searching fruitlessly for him by showing other loggers his photo in a pendant he has given her which is her last trace of her parents. wolf hears the calls of other wolves nearby, and natty tearfully tells him to go join his own kind. the company clerk catches her in one of the backwoods camps and makes arrangements for her to be sent back down the mountain for her own safety. the clerk then unexpectedly finds the returned letter her father had sent enclosing her train ticket to rejoin him and tells natty of his location. natty sets out on foot and sees a company truck pass by loaded with injured men. in the truck, she glimpses her father. she runs after it, calling out for him, but is eventually devastated when it outpaces her. she hears his voice call out for her and finds him standing in the road. they share an emotional embrace, with wolf looking on from a nearby cliff.