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Whose land did Henry David Thoreau use for his cabin at Walden Pond?
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Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau built his cabin on land owned by his friend and fellow writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau lived on this property near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, for two years, from 1845 to 1847, to conduct his experiment in simple, self-sufficient living.123