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Columbia Fur Company information


Columbia Fur Company
Company typeGeneral partnership
IndustryFur trade, Indian trade
Founded1821
FounderJoseph Renville, Kenneth McKenzie, William Laidlaw, Daniel Lamont
Defunct1827 (1827)
FateDissolved
SuccessorAmerican Fur Company
Headquarters
St. Louis
Area served
Green Bay, Minnesota River, Lake Traverse, Missouri River

Columbia Fur Company was a fur trading and Indian trading business active from 1821 to 1827, in Michigan Territory and in the unorganized territory of the United States. It then became the Upper Missouri Outfit of the American Fur Company.

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