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West, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— West, Slang

See 1920 quote at land-miner.

See: land-miner(see 1920 quote)

Quotations

1920

All this talk of mine about wheat sounds as though I were what they call out here a Soil Robber, or a Land Miner, a get-rich-quick squatter who doesn't bother about mixed farming or the rotation of crops, with no true love for the land. . . .

1958

It is well known that soil miners have put a lot of the farms definitely in the dust bowl class.