
Man-Eater
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When questioned, Packer confessed that four of the group had survived by eating two who had died of exhaustion; later he killed another in self-defence, eating him also. Packer was arrested on suspicion of murder but escaped. That same month, the half-eaten bodies of five men were discovered near Los Pinos... Packer's guilt was assumed, but the law did not catch up with him until 1883. Initially sentenced to death, he received a 40-year jail term. Paroled in 1901, he lived his last years in Denver.
Was Packer the flesh-eating monster of myth, or a wretch who acted out of self-preservation? MANEATER tells his story in page-turning prose and also reveals how recent forensic developments may shed light on Packer's long-assumed cannibalism.
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- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue: Cannibal Country
- Part 1: Dead Man's Gulch
- Chapter 1: The Pathfinder
- Chapter 2: The New Eldorado
- Chapter 3: Drifter
- Chapter 4: Pariah
- Chapter 5: Ouray
- Chapter 6: The Six
- Chapter 7: Los Pinos
- Chapter 8: Saguache
- Chapter 9: Adams
- Chapter 10: First Confession
- Chapter 11: The Sweetest Meat
- Chapter 12: The Discovery
- Chapter 13: Escape
- Part 2: The Man-Eater
- Chapter 14: Survivors and Heroes
- Chapter 15: Fort Fetterman
- Chapter 16: Swartze
- Chapter 17: Reunion
- Chapter 18: Second Confession
- Chapter 19: The Human Hyena
- Chapter 20: Two Towns
- Chapter 21: Gallotti
- Chapter 22: Indictment
- Chapter 23: The Trial: Day One
- Chapter 24: The Trial: Day Two
- Chapter 25: The Trial: Day Three
- Chapter 26: Grilled
- Chapter 27: The Sentence
- Chapter 28: Reactions
- Chapter 29: Unhung
- Chapter 30: The Great American Anthropophaginian
- Chapter 31: The Greely Expedition
- Part 3: The Prisoner
- Chapter 32: Preliminaries
- Chapter 33: Second Trial
- Chapter 34: Verdict
- Chapter 35: Cañon City
- Chapter 36: Convict Number 1389
- Chapter 37: The Insanity Commission
- Chapter 38: Unforgiven
- Chapter 39: Third Confession
- Part 4: Liberator
- Chapter 40: Polly
- Chapter 41: The Palace of Sighs
- Chapter 42: Crusader
- Chapter 43: Governor Thomas
- Chapter 44: Under Fire
- Chapter 45: Plug Hat
- Chapter 46: Witness for the Prosecution
- Chapter 47: Free at Last
- Chapter 48: The Old Scout
- Chapter 49: Legend
- Chapter 50: Bones of Contention
- Preview
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About Man-Eater
- Reviews
- About Harold Schechter
- Also by Harold Schechter
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
- Contents
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