John Reed (17??-1814) - Mountain man and explorer, Reed hailed from Ireland but made his way to America somewhere along the line. He joined with the John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company and went west with the Hunt overland Party. After having reached Fort Astoria, he and several other men were sent on March 30, 1812, with dispatches for Astor to cross the continent again to New York. However, they group arrived back at the post on May 11^th, after having been attacked by Indians, whole stole their provisions as well as the dispatches. In early 1813, Reed explorered the Willamette Valley, Oregon and spent that winter In southern Idaho. On January 10, 1814, he and several other trappers along the Boise River, were killed by Snake Indians.  

Moses B. Reed - A frontiersman who was a private in the Lewis and Clark Expedition, he soon found that he hated life along the trail and was reprimanded several times for small infractions. On August 4, 1804, he deserted the Corp, trying to make his way back to civilization. However, George Drouillard was sent to track him down and bring him back "dead or alive.”  He was soon dishonorable discharged and sent back to St. Louis, Missouri in disgrace in 1805. He was never heard from again.  

Joseph Robidoux III (1783-1868) - A fur trader who established the Blacksnake Hills Trading Post that eventually became St. Joseph, Missouri. He was born to Joseph Robidoux II and Catherine Rollet Robidoux -- one of seven children and spent most of his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where his father introduced him to the fur trade. At the age of 20, his father sent him to organize a trading post at Fort Dearborn, Illinois, site of present-day Chicago. He was very successful in this endeavor, so much so, that his competition hired local Indians to harass him and drive him from the area. He then established a trading post near the site of present-day Omaha, Nebraska in 1813, where he remained until 1822, when the American Fur Company bought him out and offered him $1,000 a year not to compete with them.