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jayhawker

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jay·hawk·er  (jhôkr)
n.
1. One of the free-soil guerrillas in Kansas and Missouri during the border disputes of 1854 to 1859.
2. A Unionist guerrilla.
3. Jayhawker Informal A native or resident of Kansas.
[From jayhawk, a fictitious bird.]
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The film takes place on the Missouri-Kansas border, where Southern Bushwackers and Union Jayhawkers chaotically roam the countryside, dispensing guerrilla justice as they see fit.
`RIDE' EXPLORES HUMAN DRAMA OF CIVIL WAR by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
They shared a common root; they originated from rebel deserters and their leaders had been jayhawkers during and after the War.
Property offenses, social tension and racial antagonism in post-Civil ... by Vandal, Gilles / Journal of Social History
Senate seat from the reliably Republican Jayhawker State in 1968, Dole served as Senate majority leader during the Reagan years [1981-1987] and from 1995 until his surprise resignation this past summer.
Church, state, and the 1996 election by Menendez, Albert J. / The Humanist
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