Growing around a lumber company started by two brothers, Broken Bow had a population of 1,983, just a decade after its incorporation in 1911.

[4] The city lies within the Little Dixie region of Oklahoma, an area originally settled largely by Southerners seeking a new start following the American Civil War.

The city was the location of the wounding and capture of murderer Richard Wayne Snell in 1984, following his shootout with local police.

[9] At the time of its founding, Broken Bow was located in Bok Tuklo County of the Apukshunubbee District, one of three administrative super-regions of the Choctaw Nation.

[11] Intercity bus service is available from Jefferson Lines in De Queen, Arkansas, about 24 miles east.

[12][11] The city of Broken Bow stands in a unique transition zone between the Red River basin and the Ouachita Mountains.

[15] the Kiamichi Mountains sit within Le Flore, Pushmataha, and McCurtain counties near the towns of Poteau and Albion.

Black bear, coyote, bobcat, deer, minks, bats, bald eagles, and varieties of woodpeckers, doves, owls, and road runners are native to the Kiamichi Mountains region.

In recent years, Broken Bow has seen a tremendous economic boom through the development of its timber and tourism industries.

Each year some 60 million cubic feet (1,700,000 m3) of lumber are harvested in McCurtain County, and great care is taken to ensure the prolonged health of local pine and hardwood forests.

Huber plans to employ about 160 people at the site and expects to create another 250 jobs within the local community.

LeVell Hill and Larry Taylor were the first Black athletes to play for Broken Bow High School.

LeVell Hill and Larry Taylor led Broken Bow to Its first State Track Championship in 1966.

In 1951, author Snowden Miller published 'Gene Autry And The Badmen Of Broken Bow', featuring the famous Western film star of that name.

Broken Bow and the surrounding area also served as the location for the episode "19:19" of the television series Millennium, in which Frank Black led a search for a group of children who had been abducted on their way to school.

The abductor, a crazed visionary who believed he was the one destined to carry out the Book of Revelation's instructions, entombed the children in an abandoned quarry.