[Ads-l] jambone & jamboree

[Stephen Goranson]

I don't know if this helps, but an 1862 book describes jambone and jamboree as two ways of playing euchre.

jambone, page 64ff:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t8v99143x;view=1up;seq=52

jamboree, p. 74ff;

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t8v99143x;view=1up;seq=62

Stephen

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