We explore one of the most extreme circumstances imaginable to try to understand the actions of the surviving (and not) members of the Donner Party. This group of emigrants spent nearly a year attempting to cross the relatively unknown American frontier only to be trapped in a substantial snowstorm which left them immobile in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Yes, they ate their dead. Yes, they killed some people for “food.” And more…

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