Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson sold the bodies of the Tsavo lions to the Field Museum in Chicago for $5,000 where they were stuffed and put on display. The Field Museum, #GN87713_7C In 1898 ...

John Henry Patterson — the civil engineer in charge ... Patterson sold the Tsavo Lions to the Field Museum during a trip through Chicago in 1925 —only four years after the Field Museum opened ...

The man-eating lions of Tsavo, exhibited at Chicago's Field Museum ... were eventually hunted by Colonel J.H. Patterson and ...

Some of the accounts given by people who survived the claws of the Man-Eating Lions ... eaters-of-tsavo devoured 135 people in 1898 until they were shot and killed by Lt John Henry Patterson.