"He had something hid up to Fish Lake," said Forsyth, who taught in the Granite School District for 20 years.

"Butch Cassidy's nephew was one of my students," she said. "He told me Butch died on his mother's porch, not in South America."

Diann Peck, Forsyth's daughter, said she's found census records that list Luzernia Long as the head of household during the years that Butch and Sundance were living in South America. There are also at least two instances of Luzernia Long purchasing property in her husband's name during the same time.

"I think he and Butch figured on going to Bolivia and making some money," Peck said, "and I think they did."

Historians say Butch and Sundance left the U.S. in 1901 for South America with Sundance's common-law wife, Etta Place. That couple's union would have occurred after Long had married Luzernia, something that doesn't surprise Forsyth.

"I think he was still kind of an outlaw when he went and married (Place)," she said, seeming to concede, at least for a moment, that Long and Sundance may have been the same man.

Place, whose true identity also remains in dispute, later returned to the United States. No one's been able to prove definitively, though, whether Butch or Sundance ever returned to the country permanently.

Many believe Butch and Sundance were killed in a 1908 shootout with Bolivian authorities following a payroll robbery. The slain men were buried together in an unmarked grave that remains undiscovered, leaving doubt about whether they were in fact the infamous American outlaws.

Peck said her grandfather told her about meeting Cassidy after he was rumored to have died in South America. She said the outlaw was sick when he showed up on the former sheriff's doorstep. After being nursed back to health, Cassidy offered Robison his rifle out of gratitude, Peck said. Her grandfather initially refused the gun, but ultimately accepted it.

"He said, 'Butch told me he never shot a man, but don't turn your back on Sundance,' " Peck recalled with a laugh.

Still, Forsyth maintains that Long was "tenderhearted." He had to hire out the slaughtering of livestock, she said, and therefore is an unlikely candidate for the role of blood-thirsty outlaw. But her son-in-law, Jerry Peck, believes anything's possible.

"I don't think whether he was a gentleman or not is really a criteria because some real gentlemen aren't always that gentle," Jerry Peck said.

In fact, family members said they're now unsure whether Long's death was actually a suicide, the official cause listed on his death certificate.

Forsyth said one of Long's grandsons found him lying next to a .22-caliber rifle on Nov. 27, 1936, and everyone assumed Long had taken his own life.