"The Sassafras Three" is something of a western frontier fairy folktale. In its pages lurk witches, dragons, pig farmers, Jackrabbits, rattlesnakes, kings, and magic. When a dusty wind-devil steals the hat off an old man's head, the old man sets out on a journey to take his hat back. Along the way he is involuntarily joined by Nash Irving, famed hunter and hill-ranger. Nash is on a quest of his own, to slay the cruel dragon in the eastward swamp...