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The Donner Party ran out of food and were trapped by a winter storm. Cannibalism was unheard of in civilized societies, so this was met with Horror! The survivors weren't exactly welcomed neighbors.
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Did pioneers eat each other in the south pass in the rocky mountains?
no they did not eat each other. but there was one party that went a different direction and they ended up eating the people who die going that way. they are know as the Donner Party.
Did the people in the donner eat died people?
No one really knows but people think that members of the Donner Party ate each when they were absolutely starved.
Did members of the Donner Party actually eat the dead people?
The members of the Donner Party went through some tough times, but they did eat the members that had died during their time with the other people, so basically yes people did eat other dead people.
Did people eat each other during The Donner Party?
Yes! Unfortunately, the desperate situation these pioneers found themselves in forced them to either, as gross as it may be, eat each other (the already deceased members) or die in the wilderness.
Why the Donner Party was also called the Dinner Family?
When one Donner dies, the family will eat the meat.
What happen to the donner party?
The Donner party left the other group of travelers and used hasting cutoff little did they know that the guide only used this path once. When the Donner party got close the the Sierra Nevada's they got suck in a snow storm some of the people in the Donner party had to leave there wagons behind or get rid of stuff so alot f the people were out side huddled against each other getting warmth. Because of this "shortcut" the donner party ran out of food and water and people died for the lack of food when it came to that the donner party had no choice to eat the dead later on theree n ople that volenterred to hichhike to california and get help and some of the people trying to get help died on the way some made it to california. Thats some what of what happend to the donner party.
Did the Donner party eat dead bodies?
Unfortunately, yes. It was either do this or die in the wilderness.
What did the donners eat?
In times of desperation, the Donner party resorted to cannibalism to ensure life until they could continue to California.
Why did the Donner party find the need to eat each other?
When the Donner Party was trapped at the beginning of November 1846, they had very little food. They slaughtered their cattle and put the meat in the snow to preserve it. Some of the emigrants had more than the others. When the meat was gone, they ate boiled oxhide and bones. They also ate their dogs. Finally, at the end of February 1847, some of the emigrants had nothing at all left to eat, so they started to eat human flesh. They didn't kill each other for food, they only ate the dead.
What did the donner party eat?
The Donner Party ran out of food and were trapped by a winter storm. Cannibalism was unheard of in civilized societies, so this was met with horror! The survivors weren't exactly welcomed neighbors.
What did the donner party have to do to live?
Well one of the them had to leave her two children (one 4 years old and the other one 8 years old) to go over the Rocky Mountains. The children did survive but they did suffer enough for a children that young and little. Also, according to some historians, the Donner party had to eat the dead people. Not all historians believe that, but some do.
Can you eat someone?
Yes. The Donner Party is a famous group of traveling anthropophagites, bound for California, who were caught u in the "westering fever" of the 1840s.
