Editing Jedediah Smith (section)

===Blackfeet expedition, 1829–30===
[[File:Bodmer -- Blackfoot Indian, 1840-1843.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Blackfoot warrior<br />Bodmer (''1840–1843'')]]
In 1829, Captain Smith personally organized a fur trade expedition into the [[Blackfoot Confederacy|Blackfeet]] territory. Smith was able to capture a good quantity of beaver pelts before being repulsed by hostile Blackfeet. [[Jim Bridger]] served as a riverboat pilot on the [[Powder River (Wyoming and Montana)|Powder River]] during the profitable expedition. In the four years of western fur trapping, Smith, Jackson, and Sublette were able to make a substantial profit and, at the 1830 rendezvous on the [[Wind River (Wyoming)|Wind River]], they sold their company to [[Thomas Fitzpatrick (trapper)|Tom Fitzpatrick]], [[Milton Sublette]], Jim Bridger, [[Henry Fraeb]], and John Baptiste Gervais who renamed it the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.{{sfn|Barbour|2011|page=247-48}}