Businesswoman: East Texas Oil Field. On October 3, 1930, after two failed attempts, oil was finally discovered on the land owned by Daisy Bradford. The Daisy Bradford #3, as this discovery well was named, would be the first in what would become the largest and most prolific oil field in the world. The oil field was so huge it could not be named for any one area but as the East Texas Oil Field. During World War II the East Texas Oil Field would produce oil that fueled the military machine of the United States to victory.

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."

Businesswoman: East Texas Oil Field. On October 3, 1930, after two failed attempts, oil was finally discovered on the land owned by Daisy Bradford. The Daisy Bradford #3, as this discovery well was named, would be the first in what would become the largest and most prolific oil field in the world. The oil field was so huge it could not be named for any one area but as the East Texas Oil Field. During World War II the East Texas Oil Field would produce oil that fueled the military machine of the United States to victory.

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."