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“Thar’s silver in them thar hills!”

photo Outlaw Run shakes things up with the world’s first double barrel roll (720 degrees) on a wooden coaster.

“Thar’s silver in them thar hills!”

That’s Silver Dollar City, just outside of Branson, Mo. Perched in a scenic area of the Ozarks, it’s been filled with a passel of whooping and hollering since March 15.

Why?

The 1880s-era theme park ripped the wrappings off its new $10 million roller coaster, Outlaw Run. Using cutting-edge technology, Idaho’s Rocky Mountain Construction designed and built the wooden roller coaster with steel wheels. Outlaw Run packs such a wallop that two posses – Coasterforce and the European Coaster club, both based in the United Kingdom – are crossing the pond to hitch a ride.

Those who ride the coaster encounter the world’s: