[1] The first settlers around Oxbow - mainly of English, Irish, and Scottish descent - began homesteading the area under the Dominion Lands Act in 1882.

[1] This set off a boom time, as personnel moved to Oxbow to work on drilling rigs and provide other services to the oil industry.

Moose Creek Regional Park is located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-west of Oxbow, and it offers camping, fishing, boating, water-skiing, a nine-hole golf course with grass greens, and driving and putting ranges.

The Oxbow Chiefs of the Saskota Baseball League[7] play at the local ball diamonds.

Bow Valley Park[8] is a campground with many recreational opportunities south of Oxbow along the Souris River.

Some of the amenities and activities include ball diamonds, a pavilion, outdoor theatre, potable water, and a boat launch.

In 1967, Christina McCall Newman edited a collection of Allen's columns from Maclean's entitled The Man From Oxbow.

The November 10, 1956, cover featured a full-colour illustration of the offices of the Oxbow Herald newspaper and showed owner Joe Pedlar at work.

In the Appendix, he points out that one of the reasons was that he had supported an Oxbow group that was opposed to nuclear weapons at the Minot Air Force Base.

Another reference to Oxbow can be found in Peter Newman's Mavericks: Canadian Rebels, Renegades and Anti-Heroes (2010), in the chapter recounting the history of the Bronfman family's early involvement with bootlegging during prohibition, prior to their establishment of the Seagram Company in Montreal.

Oxbow was also infamously the target of an article by Edmonton author W. P. Kinsella (who was catapulted to fame when his book Shoeless Joe (1980) was made into the movie Field of Dreams by Kevin Costner in 1989).