This lost little piece of Ouachita history comes to us all the way from an Iowa newspaper. It details the fight for the right of a woman to pilot a riverboat against the most powerful riverboat family on the Ouachita. Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, IA) June 22, 1890, Page 11 A SAILOR IN PETTICOATS … Continue reading The First Female Pilot on the Ouachita River