In the spring of 1860, during the Pyramid Lake War, Robert "Pony Bob" Haslam left Friday's Station at Lake Tahoe with the eastbound mail and headed toward Buckland Station. At the Carson River, 60 miles into the trip, he found that all local horses had been seized for use in the war, so he rode 15 more miles to Buckland Station on a nearly exhausted horse. There, his relief rider, Johnson Richardson, refused to continue because he feared attack from Paiutes, the only time a Pony Express rider refused to ride. Within ten minutes, Pony Bob resumed the journey himself, passed through Carson Sink, Sand Springs, and Cold Springs, covered 190 miles, and handed the mochila to J.G. Kelly at Smith's Creek. After a nine-hour rest, he took the westbound mail and began the return trip. At Cold Springs, he found the station had been raided, with the shopkeeper dead and no horses available, and he rode 37 more miles in the dark before getting a fresh horse at Sand Springs. It was said that he rode through the middle of a group of Paiutes heading the same way, then reached Buckland Station without mishap and within three and one-half hours of the scheduled time. He then continued back to Friday's Station, completing a 380-mile round trip in 36 hours, the longest on record for the Pony Express.