AtD translation: road ranch

[Mark Kohut]

Definition of road ranch

   - In the United States, a farm-to-market road or ranch-to-market road
   (sometimes farm road or ranch road for short) is a state road or county
   road that connects rural or agricultural areas to market towns.

Farm-to-market road - Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm-to-market_road

Farm girls going straight to the redlight district, farm to market....

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:28 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P371.14-17   “Neither was that Hotel St. Charles, come to think of it.”
> Wolfe Tone was flopping at the Deux Espèces, a Louisiana-style road ranch
> deep in the redlight district, filled with desperados of one kind and
> another who were waiting, most of them, for ships to take them out of the
> country.
>
> What is a "road ranch" exactly in this context?
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