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You are writing an article on the hardships encountered by pioneers, using a book about the Donner Party as a source.
Which part of the book would provide the best evidence for your thesis that stories about cannibalism among the pioneers were exaggerated by journalists trying to sell newspapers?
A chart comparing the food values of various animals showing that humans are not very nutritious
Interviews with the descendants of Donner Party survivors
Quotes from an anthropology journal on cannibalism throughout human history
Letters and diaries written by the Donner party and other pioneers as they traveled west on wagon trains
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Letters and diaries written by the Donner party and other pioneers as they traveled west on wagon trains.
Why: those are primary, contemporaneous accounts of what actually happened and what participants reported. Comparing them to newspaper stories will show whether journalists embellished or distorted events to sell papers. The other options either aren't specific to the Donner Party or to journalism (food charts, anthropology quotes) or are secondhand and potentially biased (interviews with descendants).
Why: those are primary, contemporaneous accounts of what actually happened and what participants reported. Comparing them to newspaper stories will show whether journalists embellished or distorted events to sell papers. The other options either aren't specific to the Donner Party or to journalism (food charts, anthropology quotes) or are secondhand and potentially biased (interviews with descendants).
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