Henry David Thoreau
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by Laura Dassow Walls
Figure 44: “On the spot in the woods where Thoreau had his solitary house is now quite a cairn of stones, to mark the place; I too carried one and deposited on the heap.” Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, September 1881. Photograph ca. 1895 by Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Courtesy of the Concord Free Public Library.