Jayhawkers

Another party, known as the Jayhawkers, struggled on behind the two men who went for relief, and the most of its members also came safely out of the desert, though not without extreme suffering.

The Western United States A Geographical Reader

"I have a friend who can trace his lineage back to a family member in the early 1860s who died at the hands of Jayhawkers," said Bill Connelly, manager of Rock M Nation, a Missouri blog.

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The Jayhawkers (and bleeding Kansas) moved from their home states to stop slavery.

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Detailing the underexamined conflict between the pro-Union Jayhawkers and pro-slavery Bushwhackers along the Kansas/Missouri border, the film focuses on friends Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) and Jake Roedel (The Ice Storm vet Tobey Maguire) as they wrestle with battle, romance and death.

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The term came to prominence just before the Civil War, in Bleeding Kansas, where it was adopted by militant abolitionist groups known as Jayhawkers.

“Jayhawks” « Christopher Colaninno 2008

Instead of digging in and battling the Jayhawkers.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

These Kansas guerrillas called themselves Jayhawkers -- supposedly a combination of two birds, the jay and the hawk.

The New Powers 2007

A University of Kansas poster wrote on a fan board: "The Jayhawkers defended Kansas against terrorists and helped make Kansas a free state just before the start of the Civil War."

The New Powers 2007

Over 100,000 cattle were dammed up around Baxter Springs through the summer by the blockade, and occasional violent skirmishes flared between the Confederate Texans and the Unionist Jayhawkers.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

And so, thanks to these vigilant Jayhawkers, Baxter Springs became the main cowtown of 1866, the first in a series of colorful, sinful trail towns of Kansas.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007