jayhawkers

The jayhawkers were a terror in the neighborhood of our Pleasant Hill plantation, where Mr. Merrick spent much of the war period.

Old times in Dixie land : a southern matron's memories, 1901

And glad enough to slip out from the shadows of that overhanging pall, Sanders went, half a dozen Arizona "jayhawkers" riding silently with him.

Under Fire Charles King 1888

He had a small body of daring men under him, and they were constantly being hunted by the "jayhawkers," who were proslavery Missourians, guerillas, modern free lances.

Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

Most recently, the Board of Aldermen for the town of Osceola, Missouri, issued a resolution calling on the University of Kansas to drop its "Jayhawk" mascot name because of its association with an episode on September 22-23, 1861, when US Senator Jim Lane and 2000 "jayhawkers" subjected that prosperous town of 2500 to two days of looting, murder and arson -- with fewer than 200 people remaining afterwards.

Tobias Winright: What's In A School Name And Mascot? Tobias Winright 2011

Most recently, the Board of Aldermen for the town of Osceola, Missouri, issued a resolution calling on the University of Kansas to drop its "Jayhawk" mascot name because of its association with an episode on September 22-23, 1861, when US Senator Jim Lane and 2000 "jayhawkers" subjected that prosperous town of 2500 to two days of looting, murder and arson -- with fewer than 200 people remaining afterwards.

Tobias Winright: What's In A School Name And Mascot? Tobias Winright 2011

Most recently, the Board of Aldermen for the town of Osceola, Missouri, issued a resolution calling on the University of Kansas to drop its "Jayhawk" mascot name because of its association with an episode on September 22-23, 1861, when US Senator Jim Lane and 2000 "jayhawkers" subjected that prosperous town of 2500 to two days of looting, murder and arson -- with fewer than 200 people remaining afterwards.

Tobias Winright: What's In A School Name And Mascot? Tobias Winright 2011

Most recently, the Board of Aldermen for the town of Osceola, Missouri, issued a resolution calling on the University of Kansas to drop its "Jayhawk" mascot name because of its association with an episode on September 22-23, 1861, when US Senator Jim Lane and 2000 "jayhawkers" subjected that prosperous town of 2500 to two days of looting, murder and arson -- with fewer than 200 people remaining afterwards.

Tobias Winright: What's In A School Name And Mascot? Tobias Winright 2011

Twain, said Evans, had been arrested in the company of two “Pacific street jayhawkers”—prostitutes—and had thrown himself to the ground and forced the police to drag him off by his legs to the station.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Twain, said Evans, had been arrested in the company of two “Pacific street jayhawkers”—prostitutes—and had thrown himself to the ground and forced the police to drag him off by his legs to the station.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Brown needs a trained officer if he's to take that arsenal - why, the man's but a peasant, half-crazy, half-iggerant, leadin 'a crew of jayhawkers an' farmers, scrimmagin 'in backyards an' rob-bin 'widder women.

THE NUMBERS 2010