THE NIGHT THE MOUNTAIN FELL
THE STORY OF THE
MONTANA-YELLOWSTONE
EARTHQUAKE
—by Edmund Christopherson
Cover by Elwood Averill
Copyright © 1960, 1962 by Edmund Christopherson
All rights reserved.
Illustrations and maps by DeLynn Colvert except for page 56, which was done by Beverly Linley
For correspondence or further copies of these books, write:
YELLOWSTONE PUBLICATIONS
Box 411
West Yellowstone, Montana 59758
LAWTON PRINTING, INC.
CONTENTS
- Foreword and Dedication 3
- Real Shook 5
- Trapped 16
- Outside World 26
- First Patrol 32
- CD’s Puzzle 37
- Rescue—first MD 39
- CD Wrapup 48
- Untrapped 54
- Mystery—Who Got It? 60
- CD and Natural Disasters 67
- Aftermath 72
- Living Geology 75
- Now You Can See 84
FOREWORD AND DEDICATION
To those who experienced, suffered
the helping and the helped, the surviving and the lost
all members of the involuntary fellowship
of the Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake,
to those who come to see and wonder,
and especially to those who assisted in this book’s realization,
“The Night the Mountain Fell” is cordially dedicated.
80 million tons of rock crashed off the right wall, blocking the mouth ofthe Madison Canyon.(Christopherson)
Where the mountain fell. The tremendous slide tumbled off snow-chutedsections of mountain in center.(Montana Power Company)
REAL SHOOK
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