See also: Rocky Mountain goat
- 1825  (1948)  I have taken the liberty of sending a few Curiosities collected . . . along the Coast. Among them you will find two Skins of what our people call the White Sheep of the Rocky Mountains, but it resembles more a Goat with Black Horns.
- 1888  English sportsmen call it the Rocky Mountain goat; natives in the cascades call it "the white sheep"; naturalists. . . call it an antelope. . . .
2 the white sheep, Ovis dalli, of the mountains of the Northwest.
See also: Dall sheep
- 1954  So the river was useless to us, and over . . . on the north bank and up Trowel Tail's Creek, the beavers could proceed with their logging, and the white sheep could come down to their licks unmolested.
- 1958  The white or "Dall" sheep occur in northern British Columbia, the Yukon and Northwest Territories. . . .