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America’s Favorite Bone Detective

by | Sep 1, 2008 | True Westerners

Honoring the man who dug up the truth about Alferd Packer's flesh meal.
Alferd Packer has been called “America’s Favorite Cannibal.” Students at the University of Colorado at Boulder memorialized him by naming their cafeteria after him, and he is defended by some as a guy who was forced to eat human flesh to stay alive that harsh Colorado winter of 1874. Tell all that to historical archaeologist James E. Ayres, and he


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