The last half of the 19th century was typified by tycoons and shrewd railroad barons.
In 1905, Daniel Chase "D.
C." Corbin broke the Hill lines\' stronghold by forming the Spokane International Railway as a.
Spokane businessmen regarded Hill as a tyrant and considered his Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads unwelcome monopolies in Northeast Washington and the Idaho Panhandle.
A key figure in the development of the Spokane International Railway was James Jerome Hill, or simply Jim Hill.
The last half of the 19th century was typified by tycoons and shrewd railroad barons