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Jayhawker

08-12-2001, 07:14 PM

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Jayhawker

Member of pro-Union Kansas Irregulars who fought to determine if "Bloody Kansas" would be slave or free as a state. From the ficticious Kansas bird the jayhawk, which combined the thieving qualitites of the jay with the ferocious qualities of the hawk.

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