Page layout began on the family dining room table at Big Hollow, 8 miles south of Tahlequah in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.
After a modest beginning, the publication began to grow in subscriptions when historic pictures of people and places throughout the county were published, to include requests for information regarding those photographs.
The paper also contained stories of past and current events in the outlying rural communities.
Cain rented a building on State Street in Tahlequah in 1964 to accommodate production requirements.
At that time, Cain also hired Ted Risenhoover and his wife Carol as employees of the paper.