Editing Rampart, Alaska (section)

==History==
[[File:Landing Fields - Alaska - Rampart - NARA - 68159002 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Airstrip at Rampart, 1942]]
Novelist [[Rex Beach]] (1877-1949) moved to Rampart in 1900, during the [[Klondike Gold Rush]] (1896-1899); although his prospecting efforts were of little success, the experience led to the publication of ''[[The Spoilers (Beach novel)|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 [[The Spoilers (1914 film)|1914]], [[The Spoilers (1923 film)|1923]], [[The Spoilers (1930 film)|1930]], [[The Spoilers (1942 film)|1942]], and [[The Spoilers (1955 film)|1955]].

In the 1950s, a large [[Hydroelectricity|hydroelectric]] project called the [[Rampart Dam]] was considered for the [[Yukon River]] near the village. Had the project been completed, it would have created the largest man-made reservoir in the world. Owing to popular protest, however, the project was never begun.