Stories from the Dakota’s and Alberta was that these guys would work hard -— roll into town and blow money on drinks and strippers....
In th elate 70s during the coal and oil Boom in and around Gillette, Wyoming, I took a construction crew up to build a couple of schools in Gillette.
Soon learned that the bar fights were beyond nonsensical violent and stupid and that you cound be having a late breakfast at Dennys on a Tuesday but that morning could be the end of the weeks shift for some drunk.