Tristan Smith is an independent historian living in Houston, Texas. He has worked for museums and nonprofits in Kansas, Missouri and Texas for more than twenty years in marketing, curatorial, education, volunteer, management and administrative capacities. He is the author of Houston Fire Department (Images of America series, Arcadia Publishing, 2015), A History Lover's Guide to Houston (The History Press, 2020), Historic Cemeteries of Houston and Galveston (The History Press, 2023), A History Lover's Guide to Galveston (The History Press, 2024) and the forthcoming Treasures of Texas: National Historic Landmarks of the Lone Star State (Schiffer Publishing, 2025).