AtD translation: road ranch

[Mike Jing]

That seems to be about ranch road, not road ranch.

>From this book, it seems to be some sort of hotel in a rural setting, which
makes sense.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=EBoENCF5E20C&pg=PT117&dq=%22road+ranch%22&hl=en&sa=Xved=2ahUKEwjqqei8hcvsAhVLnOAKHY9vCxo4ChDoATAFegQIBhAC#v=onepage&q=%22road%20ranch%22&f=false

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 5:07 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm-to-market_road#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20a%20farm-to-market%20road%20or,connects%20rural%20or%20agricultural%20areas%20to%20market%20towns.>
>
> 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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