"Dust Bowl, USA is a critical examination of the myths and memories that grew out of the hard times in the Great Plains. Across the nation, newspapers, magazines, books, films, and songs produced imagery of blight for local and mass audiences. As modern technology, irrigation projects, and government programs were extended on a wider scale during the "dirty thirties," the saga of the frontier continued to unfold through accounts of dust, drought,...

"It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The Wild West was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples: Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more. Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union army -- where he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel...

"Great Western Detective League officer Beau Longstreet is dispatched to assist Cheyenne sheriff Habb Tyler with a suspected bank fraud case. While in Cheyenne, Longstreet gets wind of range war brewing between open range cattle barons and homesteaders there. Meanwhile, after refusing Longstreet's marriage proposal Maddie O'Rourke moves to Buffalo in Johnson County, Wyoming. She invests in a small ranch but is caught up in the range war and sends...

Hanne and her siblings flee Norway after her "gift" causes her to commit murder, and on the American frontier Owen, a cowboy, leads them toward their uncle who may help them learn control.