July 12, 2015 – The Historic Crail Ranch Conservators hosted a “Retrospective Event” celebrating Buck and Helen Knight, a zany couple who were also prime examples of dude ranchers of the mid-20th century in the Big Sky area. Rather than converting an...
Space Problems Back in the early 1900s, the Crails had a space problem — a family of five living in a 255 square foot cabin. Over 100 years later, Crail Ranch still had a space and storage problem! The historic small cabin, first occupied by the Crails, had...
Murder/Suicide Weapon? When Frank W. Crail, grandson of the original homesteader, presented the Colt Navy Revolver to the Historic Crail Ranch, he told us that the revolver had been evidence in a murder/suicide and that his grandfather, Augustus Franklin Crail, as...
Museum Annex at Big Sky Visitor’s Center Offers Big Sky History Year-Round More than 100 visitors attended the grand opening of the Crail Ranch Homestead Museum “History Annex” in the new Big Sky Chamber Visitor Information Center on the afternoon of...
Relative visits Crail Ranch Becky Frey Finnegan (right) is shown here chatting with Big Sky author Anne Marie Mistretta (left) and family friend (center) at the season-ending Potluck at Historic Crail Ranch on Sunday, August 26. Ms. Finnegan’s father was born in...
