Jayhawker and red leg are terms that came to prominence in Kansas Territory during the Bleeding Kansas period of the 1850s; they were adopted by militant...

The Jayhawkers! is a 1959 American Technicolor VistaVision western film directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jeff Chandler as Luke Darcy and Fess Parker...

up Jayhawk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jayhawk may refer to: Jayhawker, originally a term for Free State or Union partisans during the Bleeding...

Jayhawkers is a 2014 American sports drama/biographical film directed by Kevin Willmott, following the life of Wilt Chamberlain, Phog Allen, and the 1956–57...

Kansas "Definition of Jayhawker | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com. "Definition of JAYHAWKER". www.merriam-webster.com. "jayhawker" – via The Free Dictionary...

town's long support of abolition and its reputation as a center for the Jayhawkers, who were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking...

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region...

a famous Jayhawker, and a member of the Kansas State Senate in the 1870s. He later served as a Union colonel and as a leader of Jayhawker militias during...

group—the Jayhawkers—wanted to stay with the original plan of traveling west.: 125  The group eventually split and went their separate ways; the Jayhawkers took...

Lieutenant with Supply Wagon The True Story of Jesse James (1957) as Jayhawker Sergeant (uncredited) Fear Strikes Out (1957) as Ballplayer Holding Trophy...

widespread violence as groups of Confederate bushwhackers and anti-slavery Jayhawkers competed for control. The town of Lawrence, Kansas, was a center of anti-slavery...

California in 1864. Pro-Union guerrilla fighters in Kansas were called "Jayhawkers". They were involved in cross-border raids into Missouri. In most areas...

Caulkheads Jersey → Jèrriais (adjectival), Jerseyman (demonym) Kansas → Jayhawker Liverpool, England → Scouser, Liverpudlian London, England → Cockney (specifically...

USBC National Title in 2004. The name "Jayhawk" comes from the Kansas Jayhawker militias during the Bleeding Kansas era of the American Civil War. The...

The 7th Kansas Cavalry Regiment (also known as "Jennison's Jayhawkers") was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil...

1850, so-called Bleeding Kansas erupted, affecting border ruffians and Jayhawkers. During the war, Union troops burned all occupied dwellings in Jackson...

The sacking of Osceola was a Kansas Jayhawker initiative on September 23, 1861, to push out pro-slavery Southerners at Osceola, Missouri. It was not authorized...

military officer and 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad. As a Kansas Jayhawker, he supported and was a proponent of John Brown's movement in the time...

area were divided between Unionists and Confederates. Bands of local "Jayhawkers," also known as bushwhackers, were active in the area. There were numerous...

Kansas fielded their first football team in 1890, the team was called the Jayhawkers. The outcome of Iowa's game vs. Kansas in 1891 was disputed. Iowa lists...

fighter and criminal active during the American Civil War. Ostensibly a Jayhawker fighting for the Union, Cleveland indiscriminately plundered the Kansas-Missouri...

conducted raids on neighboring counties. Of note were the Perry County Jayhawkers, a group of Union-aligned partisans known to have engaged in fighting...

The Topeka Owls was the primary name of the minor league baseball franchise based in Topeka, Kansas, USA. Topeka first began professional play in 1886...

known as the Jayhawkers), an antislavery vigilante group active in the new territory during the Bleeding Kansas era. While a Jayhawker, he met 12-year-old...

a U.S. state without slavery. Many of the "free-staters" joined the Jayhawkers in their fight against slavery and to make Kansas a free state. Many Free-Staters...

to pro-Confederacy units of the state—and their war against Northern Jayhawkers allied with the Union army. The film was a co-production between Universal...

influence the territorial decision, anti-slavery elements (also called "Jayhawkers" or "Free-soilers") financed the migration of politically determined settlers...

murder of his wife and young son by a band of Redlegs, a unit of pro-Union Jayhawker militants from Senator James H. Lane's Kansas Brigade, led by the brutal...

long-time support of abolition and its reputation as a center for Redlegs and Jayhawkers, which were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking...

Kansas Seventh Volunteer Cavalry, and known in Missouri as Jennison's Jayhawkers. Upon his own arrival in December, Brown was mustered in as the captain...