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Ian was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1933. His father George Tyson had come to Canada in 1906 and went to work as a ranch hand in the Bowden-Innisfail area north of Calgary . Ian grew up reading Will James(external link) books about the wild west. The only thing Ian wanted to be when he grew up was a cowboy, a career that his father tried to discourage him from. When he was a teenager, he began riding broncs in local rodeos, that lead to a 20 year amateur rodeo career as a bronc rider and calf roper. Then in 1956 at a rodeo in Alberta, Ian had a accident that blew his ankle out, permanently damaging it. In a Calgary hospital, recovering from surgery that rebuilt and pinned his ankle, he learned how to play the guitar.
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