Author: Edmund Christopherson

Ed Christopherson (1903-1974) was a professional author and magazine writer whose articles about Montana, the Northwest, and other subjects appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Holiday, This Week Magazine, Mademoiselle, Reader”s Digest, The New York Times, Congressional Record, etc. Christopherson went to West Yellowstone (they called it “Shookville”) the day after the quake, gathering first-hand accounts from survivors there, and flew and walked over the slide in Ennis and elsewhere in the quake area. He also spent months researching and correlating what turned out to be “The Night The Mountain Fell.”