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THE NIGHT THE MOUNTAIN FELL
_THE STORY OF THE_
MONTANA-YELLOWSTONE
EARTHQUAKE
--_by Edmund Christopherson_
[Illustration: Mountains]
_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._
[Illustration: Slanting boulder]
[Illustration: 80 million tons of rock crashed off the right wall,
blocking the mouth of the Madison Canyon. (Christopherson)]
[Illustration: Where the mountain fell. The tremendous slide tumbled
off snow-chuted sections of mountain in center.
(Montana Power Company)]