In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the
frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow
finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer,
though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a
different name: "the Man-Eater."
After the butchered remains of his five traveling companions were
discovered in a secluded valley by the Gunnison River, Packer vanished
for nine years, becoming the West's most wanted man. What followed was a
saga of evasion and retribution as the trial of the century worked to
extricate fact from myth and Polly Pry, a once-famed pioneering
journalist, took on the cause of Packer. Man-Eater is the definitive
story of a legendary crime--a gripping tale of unspeakable suffering,
the desperate struggle for survival, and the fight to uncover the truth.