EveningStar
01-12-2006, 08:13 PM
There's no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists said Thursday.
Cannibalism has been documented at the Sierra Nevada site where most of the Donner Party's 81 members were trapped during the brutal winter of 1846-47, but 21 people, including all the members of the George and Jacob Donner families, were stuck six miles away because a broken axle had delayed them. More (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/12/national/a174130S00.DTL)
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Cannibalism has been documented at the Sierra Nevada site where most of the Donner Party's 81 members were trapped during the brutal winter of 1846-47, but 21 people, including all the members of the George and Jacob Donner families, were stuck six miles away because a broken axle had delayed them. More (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/12/national/a174130S00.DTL)
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