Early in 1864, A. C. Kepler dreamt he was in the woods with a young woman whom some considered a coquette, or flirt, when an American Indian attacked him with a bow and arrow. The woman stealthily advanced and handed him a rifle that she plucked from the air. He fired at his foe, the Indian immediately disappeared, and oil gushed from the spot where he had stood. When Kepler soon visited his brother, he recognized a place on the Egbert Farm as the scene of his dream and pointed out the location of the oil gusher. His brother bored the Coquette Well at that spot, and it began flowing 1,500 barrels a day. The romantic and intriguing story became the object of great curiosity, tourists stopped daily to gaze upon the well and to pay 10 cents to climb steps and watch the oil pour into tanks, and a share in the Coquette Well was considered a small fortune.