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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BFA_oregon-shortline-terminus_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
In 1905 Union Pacific officials began construction of a branch line in the pine-forested wilderness from Ashton, Idaho, to the western edge of Yellowstone Park. As the final tracks were laid in 1907, Samuel P. Eagle, Alex Stuart, Charles Arnet and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BF7_oregon-short-line-1903_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
Named for the year it was built, the Oregon Short Line 1903 was constructed for $16,685 as an executive rail car for the Vice President of the Union Pacific. In reference to E.H. Harriman's Presidential rail car, the Arden, which was built in 1900…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26RR_the-night-the-earth-cracked_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
A quiet August night in a popular Forest Service campground just below Hebgen Dam. Nearby Cabin Creek murmurs softly, and the moon filters thought the pines.
Abruptly, the ground trembles, then jolts...then with a roar a crack appears, slicing …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26R0_sleep-interrupted_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
August 17, 1959: performer Bobbi Baker was on her way to a gig in Billings, Montana when she stopped at the Hilgard Lodge for the night. Just as she settled into bed, she heard a "huge rush of wind" and the cabin began to shake violently…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25JX_a-leap-just-in-time_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
I've been a pretty tough old bird, but I wouldn't want to go through that again! Grace Miller August 1959
Survival Tactics
Seventy-something-year-old Grace Miller was a self-professed "tough old bird." When she found herself boatin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25JU_the-lake-that-tilted_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
Imagine what it was like...
A lake that tipped...a woman who leaped from her home just in time...a performer who didn't let an earthquake stop her...cabins swallowed by waves that came out of nowhere...a highway that vanished...
Here at the si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25JP_something-is-terribly-wrong_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
Something is Terribly Wrong
Fourteen-year-old Darwin Steffler was in bed in his family's lakeside lodge about 5.5 miles east of here, when he felt the earthquake strike. After checking on his little brothers, he race through the darkened house …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25D2_earthquake-lake-geologic-area_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
On August 17, 1959, this area was hit with the most devastating modern geologic disaster in the Rocky Mountains. An earthquake of a magnitude 7.5 on the Richter scale violently shook the earth, triggering a massive landslide, large surface cracks …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2597_geologists-dream_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
Geologists Irving J. Witkind and Jack Epstein had
uncanny timing on the night of August 17, 1959 the two
U.S. Geological Survey scientists were camped on a small
knoll above Hebgen Lake when their camp trailers began to
bounce "like baske…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM258A_the-nights-peace-was-shattered_West-Yellowstone-MT.html
It began as an idyllic August night. A full moon soared quietly over Yellowstone country. Along Hebgen Lake and the Madison River, campgrounds and vacation cabins were full to capacity, and scores of families were camped by the roadside.
Waki…