The Donner Party experiences continue to intrigue California historians. This article in the LA Times reports on the latest efforts.
"No Proof Donner Clan Were Cannibals
The pioneer party split into two camps. New evidence suggests only one group resorted to eating human flesh.
By Eric Bailey
Times Staff Writer
January 13, 2006
SACRAMENTO � Nudging the history books, archeologists studying one of two campsites used by the ill-fated Donner Party during a snowbound Sierra winter 160 years ago announced Thursday that a study had unearthed no physical evidence of cannibalism."
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