Bernard Waters

Bernard Waters (1852–1911), also known as Benjamin Waters, was an American sportsman, professional dog trainer, field trial judge, conservationist, editor, reporter and author who wrote a number of books about sporting dogs under the pen name "Kingrail" around the turn of the 19th/20th centuries.

Mr. Waters was a member of the handicap committee at the 1900 Grand American trap shoot and was employed as an editor by Forest and Stream Publishing Company (forerunner of Field & Stream magazine), which was located at 318 Broadway in New York City.

Books

 * Modern Training, Handling and Kennel Management, Chicago, The Blakely Printing Co., 1889, 373p
 * The American Book of the Dog, Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally and Company, 1891, 702 p
 * Training and Handling of the Dog, Boston, Little Brown, 1894, 332p
 * Modern Training and Handling, Boston, J. Loring Thayer Publishing Co, 1894, 332p.
 * Fetch and Carry, a Treatise on Retrieving, New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1895, 124p.
 * Training the Hunting Dog for the Field and Field Trials, New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1st edition 1901, 2nd edition 1908, 281p.

Periodicals

 * Outing Magazine
 * Field Trials of Setters and Pointers. Outing, September 1902, Vol. XXXX, No. 6 pp. 728–732
 * The New York Dog Show. The Sporting Classes. Outing, April, 1903, Vol. XLII, No. 1, p. 130-131
 * Sporting Life
 * Wildwood's Magazine