The way he talks of it, the term might have been a colloquial term applied to a jayhawker or a patroller. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6] Reference
He was a merciless and most unscrupulous jayhawker. From Wordnik.com. [With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon] Reference
Our friend and guide seemed to have been a jayhawker and mountain marauder -- on the right side. From Wordnik.com. [On Horseback] Reference
Nebraska just heard new division names and is trying to see if it can return to jayhawker at 12:36 PM December 14, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
The black flags of Quantrell and of Lane, of border ruffian and jayhawker, were guidons under which quarter was unknown, and mercy a forgotten thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference
We may further restrict the field by saying that nowhere on any border was animosity so fierce as in western Missouri and eastern Kansas, where jayhawker and border ruffian waged a guerrilla war for years before the nation was arrayed against itself in ordered ranks. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference
Ferry-Durand has got a great public career before him, 's's he,' and no true friend will let him think of taking a wife who is all history and no antecedents, a blockade-runner, a spy, and the brand-new widow of a blackguard and a jayhawker she had run away from practically on her wedding-night. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavalier] Reference
jayhawker at 7:22 AM January 25, 2011. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
jayhawker at 12:57 PM January 23, 2011. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
jayhawker at 12:42 PM December 09, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
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