BARDSTOWN, Kentucky — Daniel Boone slept there. So did a five-year-old Abraham Lincoln, and the exiled king of France, Louis Phillipe. He supposedly had murals painted on the walls of his suite that featured birds so life-like that when the outlaw Jesse James stayed there a few decades later, he drunkenly shot at them, imagining the birds were alive. Th…
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