So what state's long on oil, snow and men?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Now we know why Jack London called his novel of Alaskan life "The Call of the Wild" -- single men up there outnumber single women 114 to 100.

Or so the U.S. Census Bureau reported.

But, according the bureau's figures, the plight of the single Alaskan male is not a typical American experience, ABC reported.

Overall, of the more than 96 million singles age 15 and over, women outnumber men 100 to 86.

But in some places, like Alaska's oil and timber towns, the numbers are enough to make a bachelor howl.

Still, things may be looking up for the lonely northern male. Susie Carter Smutz, publisher of the matchmaker magazine Alaska Men, a local, print version of Match.com, is on a mission to help Alaska's bachelor pack.

"The men say there is an extreme amount of competition," says Smutz, who has 400 men on the wait list to be listed in the annual publication. "Girls here will overbook on their dates and pick the best one. My son went to pick up a girl at her house one night, and she was leaving with someone else."