From the Article:
On February 9, 1874, six men left an encampment near Montrose, Colorado hoping to find their fortune in the Rocky Mountains. They had purchased supplies and were heading towards Gunnison, where there had been reports of gold.
Yet, in April, Alfred Packer, a civil war veteran, who was mustered out because of epilepsy, marched into the Los Pinos Indian agency near Gunnison, where he made an most astonishing admission.
Forced by hunger, he and his travelling companions began eating each other. Yet despite his proclaimed reluctance to resort to cannibalism, he once admitted: ‘The breasts of man…are the sweetest meat I ever tasted.’
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