No, it was part of the amazing saga of Lord Gordon Gordon, a Gilded Age con man. He is best known for successfully swindling Jay Gould, the railroad baron (which was eventually his downfall). But along the way he made a stop in Minnesota, where he bamboozled some of our most prominent citizens - an array of wealthy and powerful men known to Minnesotans today as street names. Eventually he skipped to Canada, pursued by the indefatigable Pinkertons hired by a furious Jay Gould. But it was a posse of prominent Minnesotans, backed up by an angry Minnesota militia, that marched across the border determined to perform a citizen's extradition. The Minnesotans ended up in jail in Canada on charges of attempted kidnapping. The Minnesota militia started off to rescue them. I don't think the Minnesota invasion actually made it to the border, but it took an intervention by the US President and Canadian PM to stop it. It's quite a story.

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