Max Brand 
King of the Range [EPUB ebook] 

Carrick Dunmore was a lazy, happy-go-lucky cowboy whose main pastimes were drinking and sleeping. He didn’t seem like the kind of a man who could challenge Jim Tankerton, the outlaw chief who ruled the countryside with cruel violence and cunning. But Dunmore knew a few tricks—the kind that made wild horses docile under his touch, that caused a gun to appear in his hand with lightning speed, and that just might make this carefree drifter the new King of the Range!