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Wisdom of the Rails By Jon Stone and Marc Davis — Hoboes, America's endlessly wandering dropouts, offer the wit and wisdom gleaned from their adventurous, eventful, and sometimes dangerous lives riding the rails. Insightful observations and lessons in living in a memorable collection of aphorisms and axioms, assembled by a PH. D in philosophy (who also rides the rails) and a novelist-journalist. (Illustrated. $4.95)

Memoir Don Davison, His War Stories and Newspaper Stories — A true personal narrative of young manhood just before and during the Korean conflict. Told from the first-hand perspective of a 21-year-old combat officer, it shares the fear and courage of his first terrible firefight the night the Chinese Army entered the war, and the weight of leading other youngsters into danger. There are also plenty of light-hearted hi-jinks — and, of course, genuine tragedies, as well! It's a truly moving story, narrated by an experienced and gifted writer who was there when it all took place. (Illustrated, photographs. $4.95)

Gene Howard's Blunt Letters Gene Howard — Growing up in a small town, early in the last century — what was that really like? To Gene Howard, who was born in 1917 in the tiny town of Blunt, South Dakota, those were good times, but hard times, too. These fascinating letters describe them all: the stolen hours of fishing and fun, the slow summer days for a small boy who ran his uncle's horse-drawn mowing machine from can-see to can't-see, and the enterprise and initiative that built the real west into this wonderful country of ours. You'll gain insight into the fierce privations of the Great Depression, and, best of all, share the warm sense of belonging in a place where everybody really does know your name! (Illustrated with photographs. $4.95)

The Civil War Letters of Edward Weymouth — These original, unedited letters, carefully preserved through four generations of his family, are a moving record of the dreadful, formative war years that changed a raw, 19-year-old volunteer into a combat officer and a strong and courageous man. Includes generous historical documentation, photographs, and reproductions of several maps and letters ($4.95)