Rescue in the Arctic

As the debate droned on in Congress about whether to spend money on a rescue team for Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and the other men of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Arctic, the explorers were dying one by one from the cold and lack of supplies. Henrietta Greely was determined that if the U.S. government would not act, she would find a way to rescue her husband. Here, in this essay by A. L. Todd, is their dramatic story.