Jun 26, 2026 · 1 hr 45 min · 18 segments
Mark Kumming returns to answer your questions about the evolution of Silver Dollar City, and the theme park attractions and behind-the-scenes operations of the park. Mark shares insights on the…
Mark CummingGuest
Champ HerrenHost
Well, so a couple of the questions involve the origin of the name Silver Dollar City, which is sort of a takeoff on the Yoakum dollar.
But one specific question from a gentleman in Springfield, Missouri, said, is one of the cabins, one of the ones they moved on park, the cabin that supposedly they dug up the bucket full or the kettle full of Yoakum dollars?
This is one of those lost treasure legends in the Ozarks that is well known in southeast Missouri.
So let me go ahead and give you a quick recap, the nickel version of that legend.
Allegedly, according to the legend of the lost silver dollars of the Yocums, the Yocum family moved to Stone County, Missouri, and settled in the vicinity of the junction of the White and James Rivers back in the 1840s.
Now, this was pretty early as far as the pioneers go in the southwest Missouri Ozarks.
And so when the Yocum family moved in, There were still a number of Native Americans living in the area.
And so the Yoakams, as you naturally would do back then, they made friends with the local Indians.
You know, there was a big network of Native Americans in that area that they knew, and they all got along real well.
And the Yoakum family back in the 1840s noticed that a lot of these Indians wore beautiful silver jewelry.
And from time to time, the Yoakams would ask the Indians, where do you get the silver for that jewelry? And the Indians were a little evasive.
Well, time passed, and it was time for the U.S. government to move the Indians out of the area and on westward.
Well, so a couple of the questions involve the origin of the name Silver Dollar City, which is sort of a takeoff on the Yoakum dollar.
But one specific question from a gentleman in Springfield, Missouri, said, is one of the cabins, one of the ones they moved on park, the cabin that supposedly they dug up the bucket full or the kettle full of Yoakum dollars?
This is one of those lost treasure legends in the Ozarks that is well known in southeast Missouri.
So let me go ahead and give you a quick recap, the nickel version of that legend.
Allegedly, according to the legend of the lost silver dollars of the Yocums, the Yocum family moved to Stone County, Missouri, and settled in the vicinity of the junction of the White and James Rivers back in the 1840s.
Now, this was pretty early as far as the pioneers go in the southwest Missouri Ozarks.
And so when the Yocum family moved in, There were still a number of Native Americans living in the area.
And so the Yoakams, as you naturally would do back then, they made friends with the local Indians.
You know, there was a big network of Native Americans in that area that they knew, and they all got along real well.
And the Yoakum family back in the 1840s noticed that a lot of these Indians wore beautiful silver jewelry.
And from time to time, the Yoakams would ask the Indians, where do you get the silver for that jewelry? And the Indians were a little evasive.
Well, time passed, and it was time for the U.S. government to move the Indians out of the area and on westward.
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