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Atlas Fredonyer 2024 Oct 5
"Doctor" Atlas Fredonyer was a California pioneer who was the first to "discover" what is now known to be the northern limit of the Sierra Nevada mountains. It has unfortunately since been named after him: Fredonyer Pass, and recent attempts to change the name have failed. Because Fredonyer certainly does not deserve the respect such a naming would imply: he was most well known for raping his 15-year-old stepdaughter, although he plead that she was a whore and somehow got himself pardoned by Governor Leland Stanford.

While nobody is quite sure what Fredonyer was a "doctor" of, it is known that the citizens of Rooptown found their town's land claim had never been filed at the state office when they woke up to suddenly find themselves living in "Fredonyer City." This hornswaggling was corrected within a year, thankfully, when the town was officially renamed Susanville after Susan Roop, daughter of founder and first governor of Nevada Territory Isaac Roop, who mistakenly believed his town to be in Nevada (and staged a minor war over this belief).

The heavy-set Fredonyer would proceed to thankfully rid ourselves of his presence when he died around 48 years old from a failed surgery to remove a bottle he shoved up his ass.
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