Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navaho Boy [Hardcover]

Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell (Author), T.D. Allen (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 230 pages
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press; First Edition edition (September 1967)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080610743X
• ISBN-13: 978-0806107431
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,767,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is part autobiography and part epic poem., August 17, 2003

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"hinsley6" (Amana, IA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navaho Boy (Hardcover)

I saw Blackhorse Mitchell (he has dropped the "Emerson" that was attached to him by the school) speak at the Cortez cultural center and immediately picked up the book. I read most of it in one night and finished it the next day. After coming home from vacation, I loaned it to a friend who speaks some Navajo, and I can't wait to discuss it with him.
This book is part autobiography and part epic poem. Blackhorse Mitchell describes a life that every child dreams of living - but may not appreciate the reality of. He leads us through a generation of dramatic change in the Navajo lifestyle, revealing things in his beautiful poetic meter that often appear to come through right between the words. Mr Mitchell has stripped his soul bare for his reader and yet, as a young man, appears to be unaware of it.
Currently having secured the rights (he never recieved any royalties!!!), Mr. Mitchell is currently working on a revised edition to be published by the University of Arizona. Godspeed, Blackhorse Mitchell, godspeed.

5.0 out of 5 stars Miracle Hill, October 15, 2009

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C. Roper (Jefferson, GA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navaho Boy (Hardcover)

The writing discloses a sensitive, shy, intelligent boy facing many of the same issues all children face as they grow older; learning about life outside of the family unit, going to school, facing the death of their grandparents. I didn't always follow everything he wrote, but I did learn that at heart he is a poet, that he yearns to know things beyond the horizon and that the written word enabled him to reach beyond that horizon. The poem "The Drifting Lonely Seed" that was included in the forward will hang forever on my walls. Reading it first allowed me to more fully appreciate every upturned glance at the sky, reference to the passing wind and snuggle with a lamb that he mentions in his book. This book is a great tribute to the power of the written word that allows us to share a glimpse of the life of a Navaho lad in the 1960s. I'm very glad I read it.