A stereoscopic view of Star Grocery, a grocery store tent located along the Eagle River. Taken in the 1870s-1880s. It is unknown where on the Eagle River Star Grocery was located, nor is the history of Star Grocery known.
A description of the Eagle River was included on the verso of the view:
The Eagle River is a tributary of the Grand. Its source is in the Tennessee Pass, which has an elevation of 10,418 feet. Its course is through pine groves and broad grassy valleys, with the high peaks of the Ten Mile and Blue River mountains to the east and the Mount of the Holy Cross and the Sawatch range on the west. Near at hand rise high cliffs of quartzite, sandstone, limestone and porphyry, belonging to the Silurian group and containing a continuation of the famous carbonate deposits of Leadville and the Upper Arkansas. Fifteen miles below the pass the river is reinforced by Turkey Creek and the Homestake, near the new town of Red Cliff, at an altitude of 8,550 feet. The river here enters a canon from 500 to 700 feet in depth, often nearly perpendicular, plowed by itself through the silurian and granite rocks which form Battle mountain, the scene of a deadly conflict between the Utes and the allied hosts of the Arapahoe's and Cheyenne's in 1868, and over which the old Indian trail and new wagon road passes, following the line of the carbonate outcropping.
