Chouteau

This article is about the family. For other uses, see Chouteau (disambiguation).

Chouteau is a highly-successful French Creole furtrading family based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Their ancestors Chouteau and Laclède initially settled in New Orleans. They then moved up the Mississippi River and established posts in the Midwest and Western United States, particularly along the Missouri River and in the Southwest. They co-founded St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri. Many locations were named after the family.

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