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Slogger" Williams christened the area in the 1880s: "I've been living on rump steak long enough.

From Time Magazine Archive

There the Committee of Arrangements was sitting in state but when Denver strode in a huge form bulked up before him and Slogger Meacham grinned at him evilly.

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane

At first it was Chatwourth, to buy some tobacco and break in on the Miners’ Meeting; and then Slogger Meacham, a huge mountain of a man, came ambling down the street.

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane

Powell, the well-known Cambridge Slogger, is matched against Holden, of the above parts, who has not fought in public, but is known in the Chapel districts as a determined cove.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various

A crowd of men, headed by Slogger Meacham, were coming down the street; but it was not for him to fly.

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane