 Unlike the Kansas Jayhawkers, the Big Thicket Jayhawkers were not known to be guerrilla fighters.The Big Thicket was a good place to hide, and Sam Houston had planned to hide his army there had he lost the Battle of San Jacinto.Sometime after April 1862, people who were drafted and didn't want to fight for the Confederate Army during the Civil War hid in the Big Thicket and became known as Jayhawkers.