Comeback Story 02

Use the words to fill in all the gaps.
ability (Fähigkeit) / exaggeration (Übertreibung) / extinction / railroad / myth (Mythos) / toured (auf Tournee gehen) / nickname (Spitzname) / hundreds / wowing (begeistern) / throughout / grave (Grab)
From near in the early 1900 , bison now number up to 200,000 living on farms, ranches and in parks the United States. (es gibt) a bit of irony in this herd that helped save the bison from extinction. Just one mile up the freeway there is Lookout Mountain and the of the old showman Buffalo Bill. William F. Cody earned this because of his to hunt bison, or like most people call them, (other word for "bison"). But as is often the case, the does not (quit / quiet / quite) live up to the reality. “In his entire life, he probably killed 4000,” says Steve Friesen of the Buffalo Bill Museum. “There has been much . He has been blamed (beschuldigen) for things he had nothing to do with. The near extinction of the buffalo happened (wirklich) years after his (Tod).” But Friesen admits, “Buffalo Bill was a very effective hunter, providing (Fleisch) for the army and the builders.” He was also an effective small-scale (klein) bison rancher, raising two herds in Nebraska and Wyoming. (diese Tiere) with him when his Wild West show (cf. picture) was (it's / its) visitors (so weit weg wie) Europe.