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This is a park and grab. However it is near a busy intersection and STEALTH will be required. The Mister Ed monument is not at this location. It is near by on private property.
Only in Oklahoma: The famous Mister Ed still keeps 'em talking
By GENE CURTIS
10/5/2007
One of America's best-known horses is buried under a wild cherry tree near Tahlequah.
Maybe.
The horse, of course, of course, was Mister Ed, who talked to his owner, architect Wilbur Post, through 143 episodes of a 1960s television show that was introduced by a catchy ditty that millions probably can still sing today.
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
"And no one can talk to a horse, of course,
"That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed."
The TV show, also titled "Mister Ed," starred Alan Young as Wilbur Post, Connie Hines as Wilbur's tolerant wife and Mister Ed, of course, played by a palomino American saddlebred gelding named Bamboo Harvester.
Maybe.
Some believe a different horse was used to portray Mister Ed, and there is a debate about whether the star of "Mister Ed" is buried at the site where owner Todd Carroll announced earlier this year that he wants to build 12 to 15 log houses and create a subdivision, with the entrance going past the Mister Ed monument.
After the series ended and the horse was brought to Oklahoma by Clarence Tharp, who had trained the palomino, he romped on Tharp's land until he died in February 1979, at the age of 33, and was buried under a wild cherry tree.
"He was a palomino is all I know," backhoe operator Doug Hubbard told a Tulsa World reporter in 1990. He said he was called to dig the horse's grave.
"Of course, he didn't look very good when I saw him. I assume it was him."
Him? Mister Ed, of course. Danny Snodgrass, who owned the land in 1990, said he knew "for positive it was Mister Ed."
Tahlequah veterinarian Sam Crosby, who attended to the horse a year before it died, said 33 is an unusually advanced age for a horse, roughly equal to 140 years in a human life. But another noted palomino that appeared on television -- Roy Rogers' horse Trigger -- also died at the age of 33.
A granite monument with a picture of Mister Ed sticking his head out of a barn door as he did on the TV show marks the graveside.
Some Internet accounts say the horse buried in Tahlequah was not Mister Ed, but one used in publicity shots after Mister Ed died in 1969. A representative of Young said last year that the horse that played Mister Ed died in 1970 in Burbank and his body was cremated.
Whether the horse buried near Tahlequah is Mister Ed may be debatable.
But everyone knows:
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
"And no one can talk to a horse, of course,
"That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed."
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