55 – Bass Family – 150,000 acres

January 10, 2009 by  

In 1936, Texas oilman Sid Richardson purchased St. Joseph’s Island. The retreat, totaling more than 33,000 acres just off the Texas coast, became the billionaire bachelor’s favorite getaway and is now one of many parcels that his heirs, the Bass family of Fort Worth, own and operate in the Lone Star State.

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