Man-Eater Quotes

“When he died on February 23, 1902, at age ninety-six, he had broken a local longevity record,”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“Lake San Cristobal, thousands of silver seekers swarmed to the area in a matter of”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“Frémont failed in his presidential bid, losing the 1856 election to his Democratic opponent, James Buchanan.”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“The mere possibility that Packer might be set free sent the local press into fits of indignation. “Alfred Packer, known in Colorado as the Man-Eater from his habit of dining upon his associates, desires to leave the penitentiary, the diet there not agreeing with him,” wrote the wisecracking editor of one Boulder paper. “A lawyer has found what seems to be the necessary technicality. It is hoped that the lawyer will not succeed, but if he should, the only just recompense would be to fatten him and feed him to his carnivorous client.”10”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“play The Tempest,”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“the rest began looking at each other with hungry glances, wondering which would be so kind as to die next. As no one of them proved to be accommodating enough in this particular, Noon made a virtue of necessity and, some ten days afterwards, shot Miller. His two remaining companions condoned the offense by accepting the invitation to dine on Miller, but, after all that was eatable about Miller had been eaten, it occurred to Bell that “he that sheddeth man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed,” and accordingly he shot Noon and shared him at the Noon-day meal with Packer. By the time Noon was digested, Bell became convinced of the truth of the apothegm that self-preservation is the first law of nature, and, not having any powder, he made for Packer with the butt of his gun.”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“would achieve lasting notoriety, becoming a permanent part of our national folklore. His name was Alfred Packer,”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“Lewis Petrinovich, The Cannibal Within (New York: Aldine de Gruyter,”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“Such was Frémont’s fame that, in 1856, he was nominated as the Republican Party’s first presidential candidate. The ensuing campaign was “one of the nastiest in the nation’s history.” Indulging in the kind of unbridled calumny that makes modern-day mudslinging seem like the height of civility, Frémont’s adversaries branded him “a secret papist” (a harsh accusation in an era of virulent anti-Catholic bigotry), a bastard, an adulterer, a native-born Frenchman, and the son of a prostitute.”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal