Robert Haslam was born in London, England back in 1840. While I don’t have the exact date, as a teenager he arrived in the United States, where he was hired by Bolivar Roberts. His first job was to help build stations for the Pony Express riders. After the Pony Express ended he worked as a rider for the Wells Fargo and Company.
After the Civil War, he worked as a scout for the U.S. Army, later accompanying Buffalo Bill Cody on a diplomatic mission to negotiate the surrender of Chief Sitting Bull. He also served as Deputy United States Marshall in Salt Lake City. He died in poverty in Chicago in 1912, he was 72.
What you may not know about Robert “Pony Bob” Haslam is that he will forever be in the history books for two things. One, is he made a 120 ride in 8 hours and 20 minutes while wounded, that is a record for the fastest trip by a Pony Express rider. Two, he is credited for the longest round-trip ride by a Pony Express rider of 380 miles. On the first trip, he carried the Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln.
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