The Night the Mountain Fell: The Story of the Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake
by Edmund Christopherson
Publisher: Yellowstone Publications 1962
Number of pages: 101
Description:
This book is a riveting account of the deadly 7.5 earthquake that struck Hebgen Lake in Yellowstone Park, Montana, on August 1959. Also known as the Yellowstone Earthquake, the disaster caused massive flooding and the worst landslide in the history of the Northwestern United States.
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