There are few stories that fascinate the public like the story of the Donner Party, the group of emigrants who got caught in a snowstorm in 1846-1847 in the Sierra Nevada and some members of the party resorted to cannibalism to avoid starvation.
She was raised during the Great Depression, when everyone was real careful with money. She bought on sale, watched her bank accounts, bought CDs (certificates of deposit) and money market funds and “lived pretty frugally,” her cousin recalled.