2011 macbook air cant reinstall OSx
I have a 2011 macbook air that crashed, put a new hardrive in and am having trouble. My backup is on WD my cloud, and it wont restore over the network cause its so big, so i copied to a hardrive and it completely restores, then says there was on error when its at the "finishing restoreing" message. I verified and repair the disk. I dont even want to restore it I just want to get OSX back on it. If i go into internet recovery, It trys to install Lion and gives me errors. I tried going to safari and signing into my icloud, then back to install osx and enter my apple id, and it got further but still gives me a useless error message.
Is there a way to install OSX via USB?