1855 Published "Cape Cod" in Putnam's Monthly Magazine
1858 Published "Chesuncook" in Atlantic Monthly
1860 Published in The Liberator ("The Last Days of John Brown") and in New York Daily Tribune ("The Succession of Forest Trees")
1862 "Walking," "Autumnal Tints," and "Wild Apples" published posthumously in Atlantic Monthly
1863 Previously unpublished pieces appeared in The Commonwealth and Atlantic Monthly ("Life Without Principle" and "Night and Moonlight," both in Atlantic)
Excursions (edited by Sophia Thoreau and Emerson) appeared (Boston: Ticknor and Fields)
1864 Journal extracts published in The Commonwealth, "The Wellfleet Oysterman" and "The Highland Light" in Atlantic Monthly
The Maine Woods (edited by Sophia Thoreau and Ellery Channing) appeared (Boston: Ticknor and Fields)
1865 Cape Cod (edited by Sophia Thoreau and Channing) appeared (Boston: Ticknor and Fields)
Letters to Various Persons (edited by Emerson) appeared (Boston: Ticknor and Fields)
1866 A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (edited by Sophia Thoreau and Channing) appeared (Boston: Ticknor and Fields)
1878 Extracts from journals published in Atlantic Monthly
1881 Early Spring in Massachusetts (edited from journals by H.G.O. Blake) appeared (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin)
1884 Summer (edited by Blake from journals) appeared (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin)
1888 Winter (edited by Blake from journals) appeared (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin)
1892 Autumn (edited by Blake from journals) appeared (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin)
