The Gold Fields of St. Domingo; With a Description of the Agricultural, Commercial and Other Advantages of Dominica.
New York: Anson P. Norton, 1860. 12mo, wraps, 144 pp. An uncommon pro-annexation title on the gold fields of what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Courtney was commissioned by the editor of the New York Herald to write a pro-annexation treatise. He described the island as a virginal.....