Emma was happy to reunite with her family and tour the hilly city together. Then they took a train to Burlington, Iowa, where Emma’s sister lived with her husband, General S. L. Glasgow. Sylvie had been staying at their home for the past few months, and now the Glasgows invited Emma and Sylvie to live with them for the duration of the Jeannette voyage. This steamboat town, built on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, was where Emma would spend much of her “long, long vigil.”
