What the Donner Party Ate in Final Days

**Mars_ax** · 10-11-2011 04:56 AM

The desperate pioneers resorted to eating pets, bones, twigs, glue, strings and finally each other.

Heartwarming article:

What the Donner Party Ate in Final Days : Discovery News

**brocktonblockbust** · 10-11-2011 04:02 PM

Doner Kebab

**InTheNeutralCorner** · 10-12-2011 08:00 PM

**superheavyrhun** · 10-13-2011 04:11 PM

I'd opt for cannibalism first before eating the dogs, after all, a dog is a man's best friend, and can't whinge about why you're not putting food on the table, why we should have gone left at that last white mountain etc etc.

**Mars_ax** · 10-13-2011 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by superheavyrhun

I'd opt for cannibalism first before eating the dogs, after all, a dog is a man's best friend, and can't whinge about why you're not putting food on the table, why we should have gone left at that last white mountain etc etc.

The leaders of the Donner Party couldn't have been too smart to begin with ending up snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Rather than go the normal way, the Party of 81 people, tried a new route, called Hastings Cutoff, and ended up in rugged terrain that left the group snowbound. What a horrible tragedy.

**superheavyrhun** · 10-13-2011 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Mars_ax

Originally Posted by superheavyrhun

I'd opt for cannibalism first before eating the dogs, after all, a dog is a man's best friend, and can't whinge about why you're not putting food on the table, why we should have gone left at that last white mountain etc etc.

The leaders of the Donner Party couldn't have been too smart to begin with ending up snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Rather than go the normal way, the Party of 81 people, tried a new route, called Hastings Cutoff, and ended up in rugged terrain that left the group snowbound. What a horrible tragedy.

Horrible tragedy or natural selection? Ultimately there are plenty of things the leaders could have done differently not to end up in such a predicament.