Marcus was a supply and transportation base for northward-bound travellers during the Big Bend Gold Rush of the 1860s in the Colony of British Columbia due to its location just above Kettle Falls, a wall to river navigation.
ATP International Series Gold | gold | Big Finish Productions | Rush | Rush (band) | Gold Coast | Gold | California Gold Rush | Big Brother | Big Ten Conference | The Big Bang Theory | Rush Limbaugh | Gold Coast, Queensland | South Bend, Indiana | Big Dipper | Reel Big Fish | The Rush Limbaugh Show | Big Ben | The Big Lebowski | Big Finish | Big Ten Network | Big Sur | big band | Klondike Gold Rush | Geoffrey Rush | Big Day Out | Big Brother and the Holding Company | Big Bang | Big 12 Conference | List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish |
One reason the Cariboo rush attracted fewer Americans than the original Fraser rush may have been the American Civil War, with many who had been around after the Fraser Gold Rush going home to take sides, or to the Fort Colville Gold Rush which was largely manned by men who had been on the Fraser or to other BC rushes such as those at Rock Creek and Big Bend.
Gold was discovered in 1865 on the Big Bend of the Columbia River (the Big Bend Gold Rush) and William Mouat was asked to investigate the possibility of steam navigation on the Kamloops Lake, Shuswap Lake and the Thompson River between the lakes.