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soil miner West, Slang 
West, Slang See 1920 quote at land-miner.
See also: land-miner (see 1920 quote)
- 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.
- 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. . . .