Did Mormon explorers in Utah kill and eat each other?

Question

This is true! Doyou know anything about it?

Answer 1

The Donner Party weren't Mormons, they actually crossed the Utah Desert a year before the Mormons settle there.
They stopped when they were snowed in the Sierra Nevadas at the California and Nevada border. Some of them did eat some of the other travelers who died.

Answer 2

@"How historically accurate is this movie?" The only thing its accurate about is the fact that the Mountain Meadow Massacre happened. That's it. A quote from the movie that was supposedly said by Brigham Young: "I am the voice of God and anyone who doesn't like it will be hewn down. God has revealed to me that I have the right and the power to call down curses on anyone who tries to invade our lands. Therefore, I curse the gentiles." He never said this. @"Did the Mormon Prophet really order the death of all those men, women, and children?" No. In fact its the opposite. You know how it shows Brigham supposedly saying that to the group there? He was nowhere near the saints that had done the killing. He sent a message for the saints to NOT attack. The message didn't arrive until 2 days after the massacre because as you can imagine, getting the mail wasn't as easy as it is today. @"Were the members of the wagon train related to those who killed Joseph Smith?" Some of them weren't just related, some were there when it happened. Some were part of the mob that killed Joseph and Hyrum not to mention were involved in torturing and murdering many other saints. People bring up the women and children in the massacre. Why do they never talk about how the anit-Mormons tortured the Mormon women and children in many different kinds of ways including rape? @"Are the descendants of those Saints who did the killing aware of what their ancestors did?" The thing is, who cares? Sure, its tragic that it happened but that was 154 years ago. Why do people apply that and say it means all Mormons are bad? What they did was not endorsed or condoned by the church.

Answer 3

You may be thinking of the Donner party. None of them were Mormon and that occurred in the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern California. But they didn't kill each other, though they did eat the dead members of the party to survive.

Answer 4

That was the Donnor party. They were not Mormons. Also, the event described occurred in California, not Utah.

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Answer 5

You are apparently confussing this with the Donner-Reed party traveling to California in 1846. They were trapped in the snows of the Sierra nevada Mountains, and survived by eating their dead.

While the Mormon Pioneer handcart companies of 1856 did get stranded in the snows of Wyoming, and many died of exposure, no one was eaten by others.

Answer 6

I did hear that some Mormon explorers coming through Southern Utah went through that but they were starving. They also got ambushed.

Answer 7

I didn't know the Donner's were Mormon. And I don't think they killed each other for food, but they did eat the dead to stay alive.

Answer 8

No that is the Donner-Reed party who did that- in Nevada and they weren't Mormon. It is my understanding, that they did not kill anyone for food, they ate them after they died naturally.

Answer 9

No. A while back there was a big deal about how those guys were exonerated by forensic science. Nobody ate anybody.

Answer 10

Check out the wiki link and notice that no one was actually a member of the LDS church.