 Novelist Rex Beach moved to Rampart during the Klondike Gold Rush; although his prospecting efforts were of little success, the experience led to the publication of "The Spoilers", one of three novels written by Beach that made it to Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s.Film adaptations of "The Spoilers" were released in 1914, 1923, 1930, 1942, and 1955.In the 1950s, a large hydroelectric project called the Rampart Dam was considered for the Yukon River near the village.