Keen roughnecked in the oil fields, worked in warehouses and hospitals, and dug ditches.
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Caldwell turned to oil after retiring from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 1980, inspired by memories of when he roughnecked here as a teenager.
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Valentine roughnecked in the Texas oil fields and frequented Mickey Gilley s and the Armadillo World Headquarters where he was introduced to several styles of Country and Western music.
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He made bricks, worked as a welder, mined coal, was a paper mill hand, drove gasoline trucks, roughnecked in the Northwest and trained bird dogs in Canada.