Order Artiodactyla Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 637 722 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville 1816) [Rupicapra] americana de Blainville 1816 , Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816: 80 . Type Locality: "d'Amerique"; restricted to the type locality of Ovis montanus Ord, 1815 , the Columbia River area, where observed by Lewis and Clark, in "the Cascade Mountains, and the nearby range" ( Hollister, 1912:185 ) "near Mt Adams, Washington " ( Dalquest, 1948:409 ) ( USA , Washington , Cascade Mountains, Mt. Adams) . Vernacular Names: Mountain Goat . Distribution: SE Alaska ( USA ), S Yukon and SW Mackenzie ( Canada ) to NC Oregon , C Idaho , and Montana ( USA ). Introduced to Kodiak, Chichagof, and Baranof Isls ( Alaska ), Olympic Peninsula ( Washington ), C Montana , Black Hills ( South Dakota ), and Colorado ( USA ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Revised by Cowan and McCrory (1970) . Reviewed by Rideout and Hoffmann (1975 , Mammalian Species, 63).