Figure 1.Wildcatter Dad Joiner (third from the left) shakes hands with his geologist A.D. Lloyd in front of the Daisy Bradford #3. Joiner had substantially oversold shares in the well based on a bogus prospectus written by Lloyd. Lloyd, whose real name was J.I. Durham, had no training as a geologist and had, among other things, sold patent medicine made from oil in "Dr. Alonzo Durham's Great Medicine Show." No wonder suspicion abounded in the oil business.
Figure 2.Kilgore, Texas, in the center of the East Texas Field in the 1940s. Although boom times had long since passed, street scenes such as this, common in the area, bear witness to the drilling frenzy of the boom. One city block in Kilgore had 44 wells drilled on it.
