 The following year, the two led an expedition into Kentucky, traveling up the Rockcastle River and establishing a station camp at Red Lick Fork.While Boone and a companion named John Stuart were hunting along the Kentucky River, they were captured by the Shawnee, and their pelts were confiscated.They returned to their station camp to find it plundered, and learned that Finley and the rest of the expedition had returned to North Carolina.