TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over.

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 month ago

TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over.

teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 1 month ago

AFAIK everyone in the US learns about this as part of their middle school curriculum.

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 month ago

Ah okay, IANAA - it was new to me

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 month ago

How is it taught out of interest? I feel like there are many lessons to learn from it, though mostly that none of us are above our baser nature when the situation is dire

GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Usually when they cover western expansion. However, U.S. history taught in school is mostly propoganda.

ecvanalog@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

An upcoming comic book called The Goddamned Tragedy is going to do a fixtionalized version of this.

temporal_spider@lemm.ee · 1 month ago

Here is an excellent video that goes into the matter. https://youtu.be/O5xMpsYdzgg

Kathrin@trouth.eu · 1 month ago

@tetris11 Dollop about it: https://omny.fm/shows/the-dollop-with-dave-anthony-and-gareth-reynolds/396-the-donner-party

TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over.

TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over.

Donner Party - Wikipedia