This episode is the first in a three-part series, exploring the history of King Philip's War in Western Massachusetts. This episode focuses on the start of the war in the summer and fall of 1675, with an emphasis on the Battle of Bloody Brook in South Deerfield. The battle occurred in modern-day South Deerfield on September 18, 1675, when Nipmuc, Wampanoag, and Pocumtuck warriors ambushed a group of English soldiers. The battle was one of the deadliest of the war for the English, and it was subsequently commemorated with what may have been the first European war memorial in British North America.

Sources for this episode included the following books and other resources:

King Philip's War by Eric B. Schultz and Michael J. Tougias

A History of Deerfield Massachusetts by George Sheldon

King Philip's War by George W. Ellis and John E. Morris

The History of King Philip's War by Increase Mather

Soldiers in King Philip's War by George M. Bodge

A History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts by Josiah Howard Temple and George Sheldon

Travels in New-England and New York Vol. 2 by Timothy Dwight IV

Historical Collections by John Warner Barber

An Address Delivered at Bloody Brook by Edward Everett

"(Re) Making History: Memory, Commemoration, and the Bloody Brook Monuments" by Barbara Mathews and Peter A. Thomas