April 2019 • Nebraskaland 65
My grandfather (left), Walter Adamson, and his father-in-law, Joe Edwards,
photographed around 1922 with coyote pelts and hounds from a hunt on the Adamson
Ranch in Cherry County in the Sandhills. The Dan Adamson family homesteaded in
the Sandhills and acquired the Diamond Bar in 1913, which Walter and Elvin Adamson
owned. This became part of the the Adamson Cattle Company, which is still owned and
operated by my brother, Marv Adamson, and his sons, Ryan and Jeff. The Edwards
Ranch, the site of the Lake Post Office (mail was delivered on horseback), is
now operated by the Ford family. Our dad was Elvin Adamson, who served
as a Game and Parks commissioner and was a state senator. Joe Edwards
and Dan Adamson were our great grandfathers.
– Marge Adamson Harris, Lincoln
