The Night the Mountain Fell: The Story of the Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake

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.

Slanting boulder

80 million tons of rock crashed off the right wall, blocking the mouth of the Madison Canyon.(Christopherson)

Where the mountain fell. The tremendous slide tumbled off snow-chuted sections of mountain in center.(Montana Power Company)

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