Forbes: Texas billionaires total 50, San Antonio 4. Silver Ventures owner Christopher “Kit” Goldsbury of San Antonio is the 1,290th richest in the world. Net worth: $1.6 billion. Silver Ventures owner Christopher “Kit” Goldsbury of San Antonio is the 1,290th richest in the world. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr. (February 17, 1889 – November 29, 1974), known throughout his life as H. L. Hunt, was a Texas oil tycoon and Republican political activist. By trading poker winnings for oil rights, he ultimately secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Field , one of the world's largest oil … In the years after World War II, the first great Texas oilmen—H. L. Hunt, Hugh Roy Cullen, Sid Richardson, and Clint Murchison—had emerged as a handful of the richest individuals in America, and no one knew it. No one, not even themselves. It wasn’t just that few people understood how wealthy they were.