![what happens in the eclipse book what happens in the eclipse book](https://www.typepunchmatrix.com/pictures/39659_2.jpg)
It was Monday, July 29, 1878, and the Great American Eclipse – which sliced the nation from the Montana Territory down to the coast of Louisiana – had reached the Centennial State, barely two years old. They were witnessing what they had come for: a total eclipse of the sun. “Cheer after cheer echoed and re-echoed among the surrounding mountains,” noted a journalist. Onlookers gazed up to find that the sun had gone dark like a burned-out light bulb. From the northwest came what one picnicker called “an angry black cloud of inky blackness” that advanced with the ferocity of a hurricane, violently sweeping over the land like an onyx curtain.īefore anyone could blink, the blackness had engulfed the mountaintop. Then, at exactly 3:29 p.m., the cerulean sky grew dark.
![what happens in the eclipse book what happens in the eclipse book](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e5/1b/40/e51b40d402081760c60615ed11dc02e7.jpg)
The hundreds of hikers who’d made the trek to Pikes Peak toasted with a feast of champagne that filled the valley below with drunken laughter. Overhead, a cloudless blue sky gave cause for celebration. It was a perfect summer afternoon when they arrived at the summit. Liveright“American Eclipse” recounts the Great American Eclipse of the late 19th century, a celestial phenomenon that inspired scientists, tourists and shadow-chasers across the world to descend on Colorado and Wyoming in July of 1878.