The Traveler is an affiliate of UWIRE,[3] which distributes and promotes its content to their network.

Its first editor was Joseph Othel York, a senior from Bellefonte, Arkansas, who published the paper weekly through the end of the academic year.

The first woman to edit the newspaper was Elizabeth Adams, who ran the paper during the 1913–14 school year.

The first cartoonist for the newspaper, Stuart Carothers, who also worked on the paper during that period, became well known across the country when he went to work for the Chicago Herald Examiner in 1914–1915, drawing a cartoon strip called Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers,[4] which was syndicated to 60 metropolitan newspapers.

The Traveler briefly suspended operations in 1917 when a flu epidemic forced the university and the surrounding Fayetteville community to be quarantined.