At the time of the discovery Mrs Bradford was a widow and the daughter of a well-to-do doctor-farmer. She was born and raised on the 975 acre farm her grandfather, General Andrew Miller, bought in 1840. East Texas had long been given up on as a dispository of oil by oil-men, but with the persistence of Dad Joiner and encouragement of Daisy Bradford the drilling on her property kept going deeper and deeper until oil gushed from the well. This discovery ushered in a wild era and established oil as the Texas "T."
At the time of the discovery Mrs Bradford was a widow and the daughter of a well-to-do doctor-farmer. She was born and raised on the 975 acre farm her grandfather, General Andrew Miller, bought in 1840. East Texas had long been given up on as a dispository of oil by oil-men, but with the persistence of Dad Joiner and encouragement of Daisy Bradford the drilling on her property kept going deeper and deeper until oil gushed from the well. This discovery ushered in a wild era and established oil as the Texas "T."
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