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Perkinsville: Perkins Ranch by Miriam Lucero with Shane Perkins • photography by MJ Denike


Shane Perkins, you grew up on the Perkins Ranch and spent many days in Perkinsville as a boy. You’re operat- ing the ranch today. Would you share some experiences of growing up on the ranch? How are those experiences helping you to operate the ranch? Well, it’s a family run operation. My Uncle, Danny Major, is the one that actually manages the ranch for us at this time. I work side by side with him learning the business side of ranching. If you want to know or learn anything about cattle or managing a ranch, he is the guy to learn from. I spent all my younger years on the ranch, either with my Uncle Mike or Grandpa. I did my first big cattle drive from Perkinsville, AZ to Chino Valley, AZ when I was three, on my own horse. We do this drive every year multiple times in the spring and again in the fall when we take the cattle back to Perkinsville from Chino. So even at a young age, I learned what a full days work is. I was never allowed to do anything, even eat, until all the livestock was taken care of and fed first.


By learning the value of hard work and responsibility at a young age, I think helps me today, not just in ranching, but ev- eryday life. When you are the next generation of a family that has been ranching the same country for 118 years, you better work hard and be responsible so that the ranch can continue for another 118 years. Everyday is different and when you think you have your day planned, something always comes up and you have to be flexible.


You have a maturity about you that exceeds your young years, raised with values, and morals. Would you share some of your grandparents and/or parents knowledge, and values that they instilled into you? My Great-Great Grandfather was a leader. Marion Alexander was a cattle man in Jeff Davis CO, TX and in Arizona. He was a member of the Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1904, 1906 and 1908, and the State Legislature in 1916 and 1918. My


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