page_title: Augustus Franklin Crail
section_title: Crail Fife Wheat
hierarchical_section_title: Augustus Franklin Crail / Crail Fife Wheat
caption_attribution_description: English: Historic Crail Ranch buildings, dating to 1902, are now part of the Crail Ranch Homestead Museum in Big Sky Montana.
context_page_description: Augustus Franklin "Frank" Crail, was a Montana pioneer and homesteader, cattle rancher, developer of a unique strain of wheat, politician, and a 2013 Legacy Inductee into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: During this time, Crail began experimenting with a strain of wheat designed to grow in the high country of the American West. He called his wheat "Crail Fife," perhaps in reference to his family's origins in Crail in the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. Crail actively marketed his wheat to growers in Montana and Colorado. In 1904, Crail Fife Wheat won two bronze medals at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis. His wheat also caught the attention of the US Department of Agriculture in Minneapolis who wrote to him in August 1908, requesting information and samples.
caption: Historic Crail Ranch buildings (about 2010) are part of the Crail Ranch Homestead Museum, Big Sky, Montana
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