Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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)] REAL SHOOK [Illustration: Illuminated A]