Talk:Missouri Fur Company

Date of dissolution?
I'm currently writing an unrelated article and while researching I stumbled upon the St. Louis Fur Company's expedition into the Dolores Valley in Colorado. This wiki claims that the company stopped operations in 1830 but I have some sources with conflicting information. All of these sources use the name "St. Louis Fur Company" instead of Missouri Fur Company but from what I've seen the St. Louis Fur Company is just another name for the Missouri Fur Company. Or that the original name was the St. Louis Company before they reorganized/rebranded under the Missouri name.
 * http://docs.azgs.az.gov/SpecColl/1994-01/1994-01-0404.pdf This map under the historical highlights section mentions that there was an expedition in 1831 to the Dolores Valley commanded by William Walton
 * https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/cgi-bin/colorado?a=d&d=DWE19070314.2.17&e=---en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA0-- (Section: "Mexicans were Pioneers") This Durango, Colorado newspaper from 1907 mentions the same expedition commanded by Walton but in 1833 instead of 1831
 * https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61555/61555-h/61555-h.htm this book from 1939 says that Walton was hired by the St. Louis Fur company in 1831 but had gotten to the Rio Dolores by the summer of 1833
 * https://spl.cde.state.co.us/artemis/exserials/ex211internet/ex2111920internet.pdf (page 73) this 1920 book says that the St. Louis Fur Company had a settlement on the Dolores in 1831
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Guidebook_to_Colorado/g2RHAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=st.%20louis (page 84) This 1911 book says that in 1833 a party of 60 people from the St. Louis Fur Company transited through the Rio Dolores
 * https://www.mobt3ath.com/uplode/book/book-79006.pdf (page 26) This says the St. Louis Fur Company was sending out expeditions in 1833 to the Upper Missouri River

Examples:
 * https://www.legendsofamerica.com/missouri-fur-company/ (Reorganized as MFC in 1819)
 * https://www.nebraskastudies.org/en/1800-1849/fur-traders-missionaries/the-fur-traders/ (reorganized as MFC in 1812)

All of the sources that mention expeditions past 1830 or the Rio Dolores Expedition use the name "St. Louis Fur Company" exclusively and not "Missouri Fur Company". Either there is a St. Louis Fur Company that is separate from the Missouri Fur Company, or the Missouri Company operated past 1830. Sorry if I'm getting wrong ideas, I'm not a historian so I'm not an expert on this. I'm just confused and feel like I'm missing something.

--Colin dm (talk) 21:31, 11 September 2020 (UTC)