This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.You've all seen the pictures: cowboy hats. Girls on mechanical bulls. Deep-fried treats that will be pure evil when they leave your body. A 20-year-old man hunched over, puking in an alley. That's the Calgary Stampede that we all know and love.But what happens when the party dies?Rather than photographing everyone's indiscretions and hangover-inducing nights, I grabbed my camera and headed out to the midway and grandstand to take a look at the underdogs of the ten-day event: the clean-up crew.
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