The Wind was the cause of it all.
They were at them ceaselessly, buffeting them with icy blasts in winter, burning them with hot breat.
The winds were cruel to women that came under their tyranny. there was nothing to break the sweep of the Wind across the treeless prairies, when the sand blew in blinding fury across the plains.
The sand, too, had a share in it, and human beings were involved, but the Wind was the primal force, and but for it the whole series of events would not have happened.
The Wind was the cause of it all