The next well, he promised, would be the gusher. At that point, Joiner got lucky. A Humble Oil team struck oil in a new field barely sixty miles southwest. The strike came from a previously unknown stand, the Woodbine. Suddenly all anyone in East Texas wanted to talk about was the Woodbine. Joiner wasted no time capitalizing on the news, selling twenty-five-dollar shares in a third Daisy Bradford well to dozens of local families, raising enough to lure a first-class driller over from Shreveport, a man named Ed Laster.
