Alan Banks and Sally Maggard discuss connected topics in their works, “Miners Talk Back: Labor Activism in Southeastern Kentucky in 1922” and “Coalfield Women making History,” respectively. Banks discusses in great detail the birth of a stereotype regarding east Kentucky coal miners during the great strike of 1922. According to him, “the assumption in 1922 was that southeastern Kentucky miners were not part of the national strike. In  the writings of government officials…Kentucky miners emerge as fiercely independent mountaineers uninterested in the own collective self-improvement (216),” a perception that is only true if one takes a quick glimpse at some broadly interpreted statistics. However, as Banks later goes into detail on, a closer look at the actual events in Kentucky in 1922 will tell a very different story. It is here that Sally Maggard ties in with Banks. Maggard uses her text to describe a specific side of the story that is not normally told to the public: the role of women in the Kentucky coal strikes (and beyond, of course). With an in-depth view of how women won the coal strike when the men were continuously failing, provided by Maggard, and the play-by-play of the construction of the apathetically independent coal miner stereotype from Banks, the reader of these works can then dissect and reconstruct the actual Appalachian coal-culture hidden behind the veil of mainstream entertainment.