Charles Larpenteur wrote about old news that had reached Fort William in the Missouri Territory on July 2, 1834. His journal entry notifies us that the information came from St. Louis and had alerted the clerks and trappers at the fort that "all the posts belonging to the American Fur Company (A.F.C.), as old Mr. Astor had this year sold out to Pierre Chouteau and Co." Charles mentions he was anxious...