Children; Susanne Azalie Carson, Michael Carson and Ann Harrison.
Featured as the hero of "Cowboy Western Comics" and "Sunset Carson" comic books published by Charlton in 1950-51.
His father was a rodeo rider in the circus owned by cowboy star Tom Mix.
His horse's name was Cactus.
In 1979 he was bitten by a black widow spider while he was asleep one night and almost died.
In 1980 he was discovered to have abdominal cancer. He underwent surgery, and by 1982 it was in remission.
When Carson, whose real name was Michael Harrison, signed with Republic Pictures, studio head Herbert J. Yates thought that his name was too long to fit on theater marquees and would have to be changed. As he looked out his window he saw a used-car lot across the street called "Sunset Motors", and named his new cowboy star "Sunset". The new last name, "Carson", was in honor of legendary frontiersman Kit Carson.