Richard Dawkins, the (in)famous atheism proselytizer, has mused about eating human meat. No, he doesn’t want to join the Donner Party. Researchers may soon be able to manufacture meat from cell ...

Cannibalism is having a literary moment ... and her new husband as they head west and eventually join the doomed Donner Party, which gets stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the ...

I have always been intrigued by Calistoga history, so on a gloomy afternoon, I was strolling through the Pioneer Cemetery. As I walked among the worn headstones, one caught my attention: it was ...

According to Condon the story is inspired by the gruesome real life tale of the Donner ... Party – a group of American pioneers who became snowbound in 1846–1847, with some resorting to ...

Only half of the pioneers survived (many by resorting to cannibalism). The stone marker near the Emigrant Trail Museum stands 22 feet tall. For more information about the tragic Donner Party ...