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Boswell is a town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, at the intersection of State Highway 109 and U.S. Highway 70, twenty miles west of Hugo, the county seat.

The Boswell area was one of the Choctaw Nation's first and most important settlements, centered on Mayhew, where Presbyterians established a church and mission school in 1839, a few miles north of present-day Boswell.

Mayhew grew into the administrative and judicial capital of the Pushmataha District, one of the three administrative super-regions of the Choctaw Nation, and a United States post office was established there on February 5, 1845.

In 1902 the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway laid tracks through the area, and the Mayhew post office moved south to the new railroad townsite, changing its name to Boswell in September 1902.

Accounts of Boswell's namesake differ: the Oklahoma Historical Society credits Amity V. Boswell, who surveyed the railroad right-of-way, while other sources name S. C. Boswell, a local merchant.

Boswell incorporated in 1903 through the Central District Court of Indian Territory at Durant, and by statehood in 1907 the community had 836 residents.

Boswell's population stood at 1,212 in 1920, its historical peak, before declining to 934 in 1930.

In the segregation era, Boswell's African American students attended the Dunjee Separate School, named for Oklahoma City's Roscoe Dunjee.

An annual Boswell homecoming and old settlers celebration began in 1937 and continued into the twenty-first century.

Boswell has remained a viable agricultural community served by a consolidated prekindergarten-through-twelfth-grade school district, which enrolled 422 students in 2000.