"The time trails led him to mastodons, money and the most amazing mystery of all: time."

Mastodonia

(1978) (published as

Catface

in the UK, a considerably expanded and re-written version of Simak's 1955 short story "

Project Mastodon

" which was also broadcast on the X Minus One radio program). A cat-faced alien stranded in Wisconsin befriends locals, then time-engineers portals into prehistoric epochs. The locals start a tourism company for big-game hunters, and maybe a new country: Mastodonia.