Richard D. Scheuerman was Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Seattle Pacific University. Alexander C. McGregor is president and chief executive officer of the McGregor Company, a fertilizer and farm supply firm. A businessman, educator, and writer, he has served on boards at Whitman College and Washington State University and has been active in the Washington Association of Wheat Growers. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His dissertation, Counting Sheep, chronicles four Scottish immigrants as they struggle to establish a ranching empire.

• Preface Foreword IntroductionI: Fur Trade Farming II: The British-Russian Contract III: Missions and Migrations IV: Frontier Farming to Global Trade V: Cradles to Combines VI: Hybridization at Home and Abroad VII: Grass, Gaines, and the Green Revolution Epilogue: Swords into Plowshares Appendix I: The Puget Sound Agricultural Company Farm Year Appendix II: Pacific Northwest Heirloom Grain Development Chronology Appendix III: Pacific Northwest Wheat Variety Prevalence (1919/1920) Appendix IV: Gaines Wheat Pedigree Appendix V: List of Northwest Heirloom Grains Endnotes BibliographyIndex