August Pierre Chouteau was a member of the Chouteau fur trading family who established posts in Oklahoma. Chouteau was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His father was Jean Pierre Chouteau, one of the first settlers in St. Louis. His mother was Pelagie Kiersereau (1767-1793) One of his brothers was Pierre Chouteau, Jr.. A step brother (after his father married Brigitte Saucier) was Francois Gessau Chouteau, who was one of the first settlers of Kansas City, Missouri.

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  • August Pierre Chouteau was a member of the Chouteau fur trading family who established posts in Oklahoma. Chouteau was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His father was Jean Pierre Chouteau, one of the first settlers in St. Louis. His mother was Pelagie Kiersereau (1767-1793) One of his brothers was Pierre Chouteau, Jr.. A step brother (after his father married Brigitte Saucier) was Francois Gessau Chouteau, who was one of the first settlers of Kansas City, Missouri. He was among the first Missouri appointments to West Point by Thomas Jefferson. After graduating in 1806 he resigned the Army in 1807 and became of the family fur trading business although he served as captain of the territorial militia during the War of 1812. After the war he was arrested in 1817 by the Spanish during a trading expedition on the upper Arkansas River and was imprisoned in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After being release he continued the family trade among the Osage (tribe) and established his home in Salina, Oklahoma after the tribe had been forced out of Missouri. In 1832 Washington Irving visited the post and described it in Tour of the Prairies. Chouteau, Oklahoma is named for him.
  • Auguste Pierre Chouteau, född 1786 i S. t Louis, Missouri, död 1838 i Salina, Oklahoma, var en amerikansk officer och handelsman. A.P. Chouteau tillhörde en känd amerikansk, ursprungligen fransk, släkt av pälsjägare och handelsmän. Hans farbror René Auguste Chouteau deltog som tonåring i den av Pierre Laclède ledda expedition som 1764 grundade staden S. t Louis i dåvarande Louisianaterritoriet. Auguste Pierre Chouteau fick sin militära utbildning i West Point men lämnade armén 1807, nästan direkt efter att han fått ut sin officersexamen, för att delta i familjens affärsverksamhet som huvudsakligen innebar pälshandel med olika indianstammar, för hans del framför allt osagerna. Chouteau ryckte ibland in som vägvisare och tolk för olika mer eller mindre äventyrliga expeditioner, vilket bland annat ledde till en kort tid i fängelse i Mexiko 1817. Chouteau deltog också i de fredsförhandlingar som följde på överste Henry Dodges expedition till kiowaernas område 1834 och var en av USA:s representanter vid undertecknandet av ett fredsavtal 1837 med kiowaernas överhövding Dohasan. Staden Chouteau har fått sitt namn efter Auguste Pierre Chouteau.
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  • August Pierre Chouteau was a member of the Chouteau fur trading family who established posts in Oklahoma. Chouteau was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His father was Jean Pierre Chouteau, one of the first settlers in St. Louis. His mother was Pelagie Kiersereau (1767-1793) One of his brothers was Pierre Chouteau, Jr.. A step brother (after his father married Brigitte Saucier) was Francois Gessau Chouteau, who was one of the first settlers of Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Auguste Pierre Chouteau, född 1786 i S. t Louis, Missouri, död 1838 i Salina, Oklahoma, var en amerikansk officer och handelsman. A.P. Chouteau tillhörde en känd amerikansk, ursprungligen fransk, släkt av pälsjägare och handelsmän. Hans farbror René Auguste Chouteau deltog som tonåring i den av Pierre Laclède ledda expedition som 1764 grundade staden S. t Louis i dåvarande Louisianaterritoriet.
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