AtDAtD1: The Light over the Ranges

[Dave Monroe]

The Light over the Ranges (AtD, Pt. I, p. 1)


The singular 'range' seems called for-- so why plural here?

    Range is defined in the Oxford American Dictionary as "a line or
series of mountains or hills : the coastal ranges of the northwest,"
so perhaps "range" or "ranges" can be used to denote a number of
mountains.  'Ranges' may also refer to farms, homesteads and ranches
in 1893 America. America was predominantly that in 1893. Cf. "Home,
home on the range".

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