In the 1880s, newspapers all over the country carried a sensational story out of central Louisiana under the headline “The Wild Girl of Catahoula.” If we wanted to be more accurate today, we would call her the “Wild Girl of LaSalle,” because nearly all of the sightings of her happened in the area of Catahoula Parish that would later become LaSalle. This was the area around Bayou Funny Louis, near present day Summerville.