I lock up drunken miners and see domestic disputes don't get out of hand," she said.

Another account traces its origins to San Francisco, where a resourceful cook whipped up a dish of leftover meat and vegetables for a group of drunken miners.

The last thing he remembered was the muttering of some drunken miners as they wandered past the building.

There were no random shots, fired in careless exuberance by some drunken miner, and the street was less crowded than on recent nights.

I'm tired of pleading fines for drunken miners.

Frustrated, several drunken miners then stole a work train and steamed into Victor.

And the offspring of that race's gods, dwarfed by evolution, were mocked in the pits by drunken miners as they clawed and screeched and bit.

The drunken miners cynically thought it was better for a beginner to take the risk.

The second legend is somewhat vague but concerns a few drunken miners at a bar in Leadville, Colorado.

There were no streets lined with brothels, no drunken miners staggering about, no streets that were deep in mud and horse manure.