The Night The Mountain Fell, The Story Of The Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake

A severe earthquake, centered in the vacation area of West Yellowstone, Montana, shook the ground and its inhabitants and visitors on August 17, 1959, at 11.37 pm. A mountainside fell, a lake formed, roads and houses disappeared, people were trapped, people died. The author of this narrative went to the area the day after the quake, took first-hand stories of the catastrophe, researched in the following months, and wrote this account within a year of the shaking.

By : Edmund Christopherson (1903 - 1974)

01 - Real Shook; Trapped 02 - Outside World; First Patrol 03 - Civil Defense's Puzzle; Rescue - First Medical Doctor; Civil Defense Wrapup; Untrapped 04 - Mystery - Who Got It?; Civil Defense And Natural Disasters; Aftermath 05 - Living Geology; Now You Can See It; About The Author

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.