An' I saw the great, big hotel John Jacob Astor was beginnin' to build on Broadway just below the City Hall.
They said it would cost seven hundred thousand dollars, which is an all-fired lot of money, that it would cover mighty nigh a whole block, an' that there would be nothin' else in America comin' up to it." "I'd like to see that town," said Ned.
"Maybe you will some day," said Crockett, "'cause you're young.

You don't know how young you look to me.

I heard a lot there, Ned, about that rich man, Mr.Astor.He got his start as a fur trader.

I guess he was about the biggest fur trader that ever was.

He was so active that all them animals that wore furs on their backs concluded they might as well give up.