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The Donner Party tragedy...
The Donner Party tragedy...
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September 22, 1847
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Sept. 22, 1847
* The Donner Party incident
* Resorting to cannibalism
Page 2 has a detailed & horrific article headed: "Sufferings of the California Emigrants" which is an account of what we know as the Donner Party tragedy, the emigrants headed for California who got trapped in a snow storm in the Sierra Mountains and were compelled to cannibalism to survive.
The details are from a letter datelined "Rancho Del Paso, Jan. 29, 1847" with bits including: "...After the storm ceased they succeeded in getting fire & again endeavored to pursue their pathless course through the newly-fallen snow...death was there hovering fearfully over them...Yes, stern necessity, & that love of life which even sufferings the most intense cannot vanquish, compelled them to devour their dead. Let me close this tale of horror. Suffice it to say that seven out of the sixteen reached this settlement...the rest died at different times and six of them became food for the living..." with much more.
Four pages, very nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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