abolitionism, 20–22
Alcott, Bronson, 8–9, 20, 25, 36, 37–38, 43–44, 45, 48–49
Alger, William Rounseville, 31
American literature, development of, 2, 3, 4, 11, 18, 27, 29, 34–35, 58–61
anarchism, 116
Anti-slavery and Reform Papers, 35
Atkinson, Brooks, 88, 91, 110, 136
“Autumnal Tints,” 32–33
Bazalgette, Léon, Henry Thoreau, Bachelor of Nature, 90–91, 98
Beard, Charles, 89
Beard, Mary, 89
Berry, Wendell, 158–59
Beston, Henry, 57, 102, 103, 152
Blake, Harrison, 46, 49, 50, 51, 54, 67, 68
Borsodi, Ralph, 103
Buell, Lawrence, 2, 67–68, 82, 93, 108, 165
Burroughs, John, 33, 46, 58, 63, 69–73, 74, 79, 80, 83
Canby, Henry, 27, 35, 37, 49, 88, 91, 97, 98, 122, 164
Cape Cod, 35
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, 139–41, 165
Channing, Ellery, 8, 9, 37; Thoreau, The Poet Naturalist: With Memorial Verses, 38–40, 43
“Civil Disobedience,” 20–21, 111, 132
Civil War, 33
Cold War, 96–99, 102–3, 122–23
Concord, 7–10, 13–14, 42–46, 145
Concord Days (Alcott), 38
Concord School of Philosophy, 45–46, 49
Darwinism, 64
Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 80–81, 82
ecology, 137–41
Edel, Leon, 127–28
Emerson, Edward, 1, 56, 66, 68, 83–84
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 8–10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 26, 27–29, 33–34, 36, 40, 45–46
environmental movement, 133–35, 141–42, 146–47, 152–55
eulogies to Thoreau, 28, 36, 40
Excursions, 36
Flagg, Wilson, 62
Foerster, Norman, 59, 73, 80, 82, 83, 90
Fosdick, Raymond, 85, 86, 88, 91, 96
Freud, Sigmund. See psychoanalysis
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 129
Gandhi, Mahatma, 113–14
Gilded Age, 55
Great Depression, 91–93
Hall of Fame for Great Americans, 109–11, 118
Harding, Walter, Days of Henry Thoreau, 3, 6–7, 95, 110–11, 125, 157
Henley, Don, 169
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 3–4, 8, 9, 12, 26, 36, 40–41, 62, 66, 70, 71
hippies, 117–20
homesteading movement, 130–31
Industrial Revolution, 33–34, 55, 89, 90
Japp, Alexander Hay, Thoreau: His Life and Aims, 46–47
Jefferies, Richard, 61
Jones, Howard Mumford, 99, 111, 146
Katahdin, 147–49
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 114
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 96, 100–101, 120, 129–30, 150, 156, 158
Lawrence, Jerome, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, 114
Lear, Linda, 139
Leary, Lewis, 31, 107, 109, 111, 121, 131
Lee, Robert E., The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, 114
Lowell, James Russell, 2, 15, 16–17, 29–31, 37, 40–41, 59, 60, 69, 110
Lynd, Stoughton, Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, 115–16, 121
Lytle, Mark Hamilton, 140, 165
Maine Woods, The, 15–16, 147–49, 150–51, 153
Matthiessen, Francis O., 94, 99, 122, 127
Maynard, Barksdale, 43, 53, 63
McGregor, Robert Kuhn, 12–13
McKibben, Bill, 162
Miller, Perry, Consciousness in Concord, 123–25, 126, 144
Montrie, Chad, 164
Muir, John, 73–77
Nash, Roderick, 147
nature, literary depictions, 4–5, 10, 27, 32–33, 36–37, 57–67, 71–73, 77–80, 84, 102–4, 146–47, 157
Nearing, Helen and Scott, 130–31
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The, 114–15
Oelschlaeger, Max, 165
outdoor recreation, 99–100
Peattie, Donald Culross, 105–6
Porter, Eliot, In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World, 155–57
posthumous publications, 36, 48–49, 67–68
psychoanalysis, 122–24, 126–28
religion. See Thoreau, Henry David: religious views
reviews. See Thoreau, Henry David: book reviews
Richardson, R. D., 4, 12, 148, 165
romanticism, 10–11
Salomon, Louis, 108
Salt, Henry S., Life of Thoreau, 42, 51, 52–53, 68
Sanborn, Franklin, Henry D. Thoreau and Personality of Thoreau, 52, 53
Sattelmeyer, Robert, 17, 36, 86, 90
Scudder, Townsend, 6, 8, 15, 115
Skinner, B. F., Walden II, 152
Slater, Philip, Pursuit of Loneliness, 151–52
slavery. See abolitionism
Sleepy Hollow. See Concord
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 31–32
Stoller, Leo, 125, 135–36, 137, 149, 167
Teale, Edwin Way, 100, 101–2, 104, 143
Thoreau, Cynthia Dunbar (mother), 5
Thoreau, Henry David: biographies of, 9, 11–13, 16, 27, 38–39, 46–48, 51–53, 90–91, 110–11, 122, 127, 128, 136; book reviews, 49–50, 68, 80–82, 107; British reception of, 36–37; contemporary opinions of, 13–15, 16–17, 18–20, 25–26; death, 22–23, 27; friends, 8–9; journal, 13, 48–51, 67–68, 80–81, 91, 136; lectures and lecturing, 14–15, 22; religious views, 26, 30, 54; youth, 5–7
Thoreau, John (brother), 6
Thoreau, John (father), 5–6
Thoreau, Sophia (sister), 23, 29, 36, 44, 49, 67
Torrey, Bradford, 64, 65, 67, 68, 78, 80
Walden (book), 3, 13, 18–20, 27, 37, 85–86, 94–95, 98–99, 107–8, 117–18, 129–32, 134, 157
Walden Pond, 11–12, 25–26, 29, 43–44, 56–57, 142–45
“Walking” (essay), 155
Walls, Laura Dassow, 16, 22, 157
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 73
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A, 12, 16–17, 30, 31, 146
wilderness preservation. See environmental movement
World War II, 94–96
Worster, Donald, 141, 163, 168–69
Wright, Mabel Osgood, 65, 66–67
Yankee in Canada, A, 35