When Money Grew on Trees: The True Tale of a Marijuana Moonshiner and the Outlaw Sheriff of Madison County, Arkansas

When Money Grew on Trees is the true story of David Mac, a marijuana moonshiner who built a multimillion-dollar operation deep in the Ozark Mountains—protected by Madison County’s notorious sheriff, Ralph Baker.

In the 1980s and ‘90s, Mac left Michigan for Arkansas, chasing the dream of easy money. What he found was a backwoods empire where the law had a price and the sheriff was both protector and partner. For nearly two decades, Mac and Baker blurred the lines between lawman and outlaw, t...