Fredonyer Pass

Fredonyer Pass received its name from Dr. Atlas Fredonyer, who discovered the pass in 1850. Fredonyer was born in Switzerland in about 1832. In 1862, Fredonyer was convicted of incest and eventually pardoned by California Governor Leland Stanford.{{cite news {{cite news In 1880, Dr. Fredonyer died in San Francisco after colon surgery to remove a 16-ounce bottle that he had inadvertently lost inside his rectum after an attempt to alleviate a severe case of diarrhea. == Geography ==

In the early 1900s, Fredonyer pass was known as Fredonia Pass. This boundary roughly follows the drainage of the North Fork Feather River southeast to Fredonyer Pass. Note that there are other Cenozoic igneous rocks in the Sierra (e.g., near Lake Tahoe), but there is a clear geological division near Fredonyer Pass, and points westward as far as the Sacramento Valley. ==See also==