True Tales From California’s Mission History
Discover California Mission history through true tales. Thrill to Mission San Francisco de Asís’s (also called Mision Dolores) love story that is more romantic than the legend surrounding it.
In 1806 Chamberlain Nikola Rezanov, sails from St Petersburg, Russia to the windswept sands of Spanish California. Czar Alexander I has sent him to ease his grief at the loss of his wife, negotiate trade treaties, and inspect the Russian-American Company’s operations. Nikolai falls in love with Concepción Argüello, daughter of the commandant of the Presidio Of San Francisco.
Nikolai and Concepción have been betrothed by the Mission padres, but there is a problem. He is Russian Orthodox, she is Roman Catholic. Normally this would make marriage impossible. However, this diplomatic marriage would link Spain and Russia just as Napoleon and the French Army loom over Europe.
Will Concepción and Nikolai find happiness, or will tragedy intervene?
Buy the app and find out!
In 1806 Chamberlain Nikola Rezanov, sails from St Petersburg, Russia to the windswept sands of Spanish California. Czar Alexander I has sent him to ease his grief at the loss of his wife, negotiate trade treaties, and inspect the Russian-American Company’s operations. Nikolai falls in love with Concepción Argüello, daughter of the commandant of the Presidio Of San Francisco.
Nikolai and Concepción have been betrothed by the Mission padres, but there is a problem. He is Russian Orthodox, she is Roman Catholic. Normally this would make marriage impossible. However, this diplomatic marriage would link Spain and Russia just as Napoleon and the French Army loom over Europe.
Will Concepción and Nikolai find happiness, or will tragedy intervene?
Buy the app and find out!
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What happened?
This app was great, and now it doesn’t work. Only the part with the stories is functional. The missions component isn’t functional at all. My students started working on their mission reports and the app dies whenever you click on a mission! This app worked just fine last year, and I am assuming this has to do with not being compatible with the latest iOS. Please fix this ASAP so students can use this app for research! It’s worthless right now!
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Response from developer
Sorry about that! It's all fixed (version 4.0) and working great with the latest iOS.
This is a religiously biased app
I downloaded this app for my son's fourth grade classmates to listen to in my car on the way to their California Mission field trip. I thought it would be historical in nature. In reality it is an extremely biased attempt at explaining how great the Spanish were for trying to save the souls of the natives who are continually referred to as the "children" of the padres. At one point it says the natives were not used to working hard like they had to do at the missions. Really? You try living off the land and tell me that you are not working hard. I'm very disappointed and wasted $5 which is a lot for an app. Good thing I listened first before exposing my son's classmates. If you are looking for unbiased historical accounts, this isn't it.
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Response from developer
I'm sorry. This is not a fair review.
Limited Information
The stories add a nice element, but the app would be so much better if they took the time to extract more data about each mission. The only data about each mission - one sentence about it, address, when founded, and a link to the website.
Since CA Missions is a 4th grade curriculum area, it would have been helpful to have things like who founded each missions, bibliography data on the founders, crops and livestock information, about the mission in the current day, etc.
I realize the link to a website gives this information, but if there was a clean, standardized interface with all the basic information, it would really help 4th graders!
I also think some of the stories are a bit much for 4th graders, so I would look at that when putting this together and choosing the stories you are selecting.
Since CA Missions is a 4th grade curriculum area, it would have been helpful to have things like who founded each missions, bibliography data on the founders, crops and livestock information, about the mission in the current day, etc.
I realize the link to a website gives this information, but if there was a clean, standardized interface with all the basic information, it would really help 4th graders!
I also think some of the stories are a bit much for 4th graders, so I would look at that when putting this together and choosing the stories you are selecting.
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Response from developer
Stores are the main focus but we'll add more useful information in the future. Thank you for your feedback.
Good audio
It's very helpful.
Nice straight forward app; but has iPhone footprint only …
Nice straightforward presentation of information with handy buttons on the bottom to quickly take you to those sections. I like the audio story feature; interesting historical narratives, well written and read. However, if you leave the story and come back, it doesn't remember where you left off, so you have to start all over again when you return.
It's designed for the iPhone, so when it's on the iPad, you have the 2x option, but that makes it a little blurry. The app doesn't rotate with changing orientation of the iPad.
The information on each of the 21 missions consists of a thumbnail photo, the mission name, a brief 1-2 sentence description, founded date - sometimes with some other information, address, phone number, and website link (handy).
Value - with other information presentation apps you may get more for less money, but there has been some effort put into this app, especially with the writing and reading of the historical narratives.
If this app rotated with iPad orientation and remembered where you left off for each story, I would give it 4 stars.
It's designed for the iPhone, so when it's on the iPad, you have the 2x option, but that makes it a little blurry. The app doesn't rotate with changing orientation of the iPad.
The information on each of the 21 missions consists of a thumbnail photo, the mission name, a brief 1-2 sentence description, founded date - sometimes with some other information, address, phone number, and website link (handy).
Value - with other information presentation apps you may get more for less money, but there has been some effort put into this app, especially with the writing and reading of the historical narratives.
If this app rotated with iPad orientation and remembered where you left off for each story, I would give it 4 stars.
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Response from developer
It's now a universal iPhone and iPad app (version 4.0).
Great For Teachers And Parents Loved It!!!
I'm a teacher and a parent and I found this educational and entertaining. I'm always looking for information to use when we begin studying California Missions and this is such an invaluable supplement to our curriculum. It gives great information for students to use in their reports as well.
As a parent I take my family on a few vacations every summer. One fairly inexpensive trip we enjoy taking is to the California Missions. My kids enjoy it more with the stories and information provided with this app.
As a parent I take my family on a few vacations every summer. One fairly inexpensive trip we enjoy taking is to the California Missions. My kids enjoy it more with the stories and information provided with this app.
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