Another big Texas ranch has traded, but the buyer isn’t the usual city slicker or wannabe cowboy.

The 15,000-acre spread southeast of Dallas in Leon and Freestone counties was put up for sale more than a year ago by one of Fort Worth's prominent families.

The KB Carter Ranch is east of Interstate 45 midway between Dallas and Houston and has riverfront woodlands, farm fields, cattle grazing land and acres of lakes.

The property has been in the same hands since the 1800s and is owned by Fort Worth’s Kimbell, Carter and Fortson families.

Dallas-based Icon Global Group listed the grand property at almost $50 million.

The KB Carter Ranch was purchased by an arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“They are one of the largest cattle ranch operators in the U.S.,” said Icon Global founder Bernard Uechtritz. “They have a lot of ranches across the country.”

Uechtritz said the new owners want to keep the property intact. “They are good land stewards, which is what the Fortsons wanted,” he said.

The KB Carter Ranch has a 3,500-square-foot manager’s house, an office, a horse barn, a workshop and two employee homes. It also has a private air strip.

The ranch is used to run more than 10,000 head of cattle and also grows sorghum and corn crops.