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Red Deer

Red Deer river, 385 mi (620 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts. in Banff National Park, SW Alta., Canada, and flowing NE past Red Deer city, then SE and E across the plains to the South Saskatchewan River just over the Saskatchewan border.

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Red Deer, Canada Alberta: a city named after the river of the same name which itself was named by Scottish settlers who mistook the local elk for the red deer of Scotland.

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	Jerky is deer to hunters.(Recreation)(Dried meat products booming in popularity) Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 11/7/2002

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