* * * * * Big Mike Chisholm was born at a whistle stop called Monument - north of Colorado Springs on the road to Denver - during the First World War, and Pancho Villa’s Mexican revolution, in that turbulent year of 1916. His grandfather, David Chisholm, had arrived in the area as a homesteader in 1865, when Monument was referred to as “Henry’s Station,” for Henry “Dutch” Limbach who ran a saloon on a homestead. Later, when the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad arrived in 1872, the town was renamed “Monument” after the prominent rock formation to the west. This area lay at the foot of the continental divide, otherwise known as the Colorado Rocky Mountains, where the Great Plains begin their rush eastward through Kansas and Neb...