All three versions enter Wallens Creek Valley via Kane Gap, and proceed down Wallens Creek to present Stickleyville. Adam said that he hid under a pile of driftwood beside Wallens Creek beside the Wilderness Trail. Boone's early biographers knew the story but did not publish it. They left Russells Fort with James Boone and his party, which traveled down the Clinch Valley branch of the Wilderness Trail until they regained the main Wilderness Trail just north of Natural Tunnel. [127], Byron's poem celebrated Boone as someone who found happiness by turning his back on civilization. Thanks to Filson's book, Boone became a symbol of the "natural man" who lives a virtuous, uncomplicated existence in the wilderness.