The text of this online edition is based on two journals kept by Alice Fletcher during a six-week venture into Plains Indian territory in 1881. A typewritten copy of Fletcher's journal was subsequently produced by Francis La Flesche, who omitted small portions of the original journals not relating to Fletcher's trip, perhaps at her request. The typescript was scanned with optical character recognition software at the National Anthropological Archives in November 1999, then proofed against the original manuscript to correct minor errors in the typescript. Included in this online version are also 26 of the 61 drawings in Fletcher's diary. Apart from the diary the site also offers a photo gallery.