He made several trading trips to Mexico during this time, when the Mexican border was much closer to Colorado than it is today.
During the Mexican-American War, Boggs was drafted to serve as a courier, carrying military correspondence between Taos and Fort Leavenworth.
Here he worked on the Maxwell Land Grant running cattle north and south to and from southeastern Colorado.
In 1871, he was elected to represent Bent and Greenwood counties in the 9th Colorado Territorial General Assembly.
[3] He and his family moved to Springer, New Mexico in 1877 in the wake of ownership disputes involving his Boggsville property.
[1][3] In 1888, he and his wife traveled to Clayton, New Mexico and moved in with their daughter Minnie and her husband, George A. Bushnell, who was employed there as auditor for the Maxwell Land Grant Company.