Maclean's entitled The Man From Oxbow. Oxbow's town museum is named in Allen's honour. During his time as Editor of Maclean's, Allen (who was famous for the quote, "this will have to be re-written before we can reject it") mentioned Oxbow several times in the magazine. 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. There is also a reference to Oxbow in My Discovery of America by Farley Mowat (1985). The book is a memoir detailing why Mowat was denied entry to the US in 1985. 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). Kinsella was sent to Oxbow by Saturday Night magazine after Oxbow had the dubious distinction of having Canada's highest per-capita murder rate. Years later, Kinsella followed up with a second article, again in Saturday Night. Notable Oxbowites Ralph Allen - Editor of Maclean's Eric Berntson - Politician Lorna Brown - Artist Lindsay Carson - Retired NHL hockey player Sandy Cushon - Television Host for CBC Television Theoren Fleury - Retired NHL hockey player Andrew Irvine - Professor and dramatist at University of British Columbia Tanner Jeannot - NHL hockey player Reg Kerr - Retired NHL hockey player Chaelynn Kitz - Curler Marj Mitchell - World Curling Championships Curler Kris Porter - Retired professional hockey player Lanette Prediger - Canadian skeleton racer Archibald Riddell - Politician Richard Southam - Politician Jesse Pickard Tripp - Politician Frank B. Walsh - Ophthalmologist Thomas J. Walsh, Alberta lawyer and past-president of the Canadian Bar Association. References Further reading Furrow to the Future: Oxbow and Glen Ewen (local history book, published 1984): Volume 1, Volume 2 External links Towns in Saskatchewan Division No. 1, Saskatchewan