Page 203: "As to the origin of the name 'Jayhawker' there seems to be some difference of opinion. Adjt. Gen. S. M. Fox, in his story of the Seventh Kansas, says that 'the predatory habits of the jayhawk would indicate that the name as applied to Jennison's men was singularly appropriate.' Ingalls wrote an essay on the 'Last of the Jayhawkers,' a title suggested, no doubt, by Cooper's 'Last of the Mohicans.' In it he gives a sketch of the career of Captain Cleveland, and incidentally states that the jayhawk is a bird entirely unknown to the ornithologist; that it is a myth. It is well known that the name did not originate in Kansas, for as early as 1849 a party of Argonauts from Illinois made the overland journey to California and called themselves 'Jayhawkers.' They were lost in Death valley, and the story of their sufferings and final rescue has often been told."
