Behold the First American Board Sport, Travellers’ Tour By the USA (1822)

Requested to call a clas­sic Amer­i­can board sport, most of us would first consider Monop­oly, whose imagery and ver­biage — Park Place, Wealthy Uncle Pen­ny­luggage, “Don’t go go” — has labored its method deep into the cul­ture since Park­er Broth­ers introduced it to mar­ket in 1935. Regardless of that, it isn’t the outdated­est Amer­i­can board…