Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Company

found: A guide to the microfilm edition of ... Papers of the St. Louis fur trade, c1991:p. 25 (Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co., successor of the American Fur Company)

found: Encyc. Brit., 15th ed.micro., v. 3 (under Chouteau, Pierre: Pierre Chouteau, Jr., & Company)

found: Wikipedia, 13 June 2013(Pierre Chouteau, Jr. & Company (1838-1864); popularly known as the American Fur Company. Partners were Pierre Chouteau Jr., John Sarpy, Joseph Sire and John Sanford. Pierre Chouteau Jr. owned about 250,000 shares while the other partners owned about 80,000 shares each)

found: Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Company, via WWW, 13 June 2013(Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Company, a St. Louis, Missouri-based fur trading company, was formed through the purchase of the assets of the American Fur Company's Western Department, in 1834 by Bernard Pratte and Pierre Chouteau, Jr. The new firm operated as Pratte, Chouteau and Company, but in 1838, Pratte retired, Chouteau gained control and the firm operated for the remainder of its existence under his name. The firm, however, continued to be known as the American Fur Company throughout its operation. The Chouteau Company's Upper Missouri Outfit was the major American trading company in the Northwest from its inception to the end of the fur trade era in the 1860s, with periodic competition from other short-lived companies. The monopoly enjoyed by the Company from the mid-1830s was gained primarily by the combined use of light-draft steamboats and an illegal distillery at Fort Union. Some of the Chouteau Company's more well known partners and employees included: Alexander Culbertson, Andrew Dawson, Malcolm Clarke, Kenneth McKenzie, Alexander Harvey, and Louis Rivit.)