QUAKE LAKE Smokejumpers SLIDE destroyed road 5 bodies found 19 presumed buried under slide helicopter took victims here Quake Exhibits Old Madison Valley Fault RAYNOLDS PASS Raynolds Pass Road (replacing Madison Canyon road knocked out by Quake) CLIFF LAKE 2 fatalities RED CANYON FAULT HEBGEN LAKE HEBGEN FAULT Road fell into Lake Improvised road Sandspout 4 Air Force Helicopters WEST YELLOWSTONE Injured transferred from helicopter for flight to hospital [Illustration: General Area Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake August 17, 1959] MONTANA-YELLOWSTONE EARTHQUAKE [Illustration: The Slide (U. S. Forest Svc.)] [Illustration: This was level ground before the quake made this 20-ft. scarp. (Mont. Hwy. Comm.)] [Illustration: Road missing after quake. (Montana Power)] [Illustration: These massive rocks blocked the road at Yellowstone Park’s Golden Gate after the Earthquake. (Natl. Park Svc.)] [Illustration: Shook-up road after quake. (USFS)] ABOUT THE AUTHOR [Illustration: Edmund Christopherson] Ed Christopherson was a professional author and magazine writer whose articles about Montana, the Northwest, and other subjects appear in The Saturday Evening Post, Holiday, This Week Magazine, Mademoiselle, Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, Congressional Record, etc. Born in Ohio, he began his writing career in New York. His introduction to the Mountain Northwest came through a season as a Forest Service Smokejumper. After several years in New York, he picked exciting and scenic Western Montana as the center of his regional writing activities. Christopherson went to West Yellowstone (they called it “Shookville”) the day after the quake. He got first hand accounts from survivors there, and in Ennis, flew and walked over the slide and elsewhere in the quake area, and since has spent months researching and correlating what turned out to be “The Night The Mountain Fell.” Transcriber’s Notes —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —Silently corrected a few typos. —Transcribed some text within images. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Night the Mountain Fell, by Edmund Christopherson