The Taproot Project

We’re digitizing the root documents of Texas history. Taproot puts the source material at your fingertips, no matter where you are.

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The Austin Papers

The Austin Papers, three volumes in four books. (It makes sense if you don’t think about it!)

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The Papers of Mirabeau B. Lamar

The collected writings of the second president of the Republic of Texas, as well as the historical data he collected and notes he made about history. All six volumes of the Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar.

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History of Spanish & Mexican Texas

The full text of Carlos Castañeda’s 7-volume Our Catholic Heritage,. the best guide to three centuries of Spanish and Mexican Texas. Embracing 92 early expeditions to and 50 missions in early Texas, Castanñda’s work exposed the hustle and bustle of this place in the 16th-19th centuries.

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