Mormons?

[NickNascati]

All,
      After watching and reading "Riders of the Purple Sage' and watching "Hell on Wheels", I am thinking of adding some Mormons to my Western games.  Other than somber colors and beards, is there anything else that would make them different from ordinary Cowboys?

[The Gray Ghost]

All,
      After watching and reading "Riders of the Purple Sage' and watching "Hell on Wheels", I am thinking of adding some Mormons to my Western games.  Other than somber colors and beards, is there anything else that would make them different from ordinary Cowboys?

they would be more conservatively dress than other cowboys, more like store keepers.
Edit
another good movie is The Avenging Angel from 1995 with Tom Berenger
Avenging Angel is a 1985 Sexy vigilante film with Betsy Russell

[traveller]

And "September Dawn" (Mountain Meadow Massacre) is another movie.

What miniatures do you use? I found it hard to find minis with the characteristic hats and coats

[carlos marighela]

All,
      After watching and reading "Riders of the Purple Sage' and watching "Hell on Wheels", I am thinking of adding some Mormons to my Western games.  Other than somber colors and beards, is there anything else that would make them different from ordinary Cowboys?

Magic underpants.

Alternatively you could take the route of depicting them as 19th C versions of the Osmonds. Lots of dazzlingly white teeth.

[Cory]

For the men conservative dress, but even that's a generality - there was nothing to set Mormons apart and the ubiquitous black jacket was the same Sunday best all the other protestants wore. Women clung to the bonnet after it had started to fall out of fashion, but the same could be said of rural folks throughout the west.

Numbers was the big thing to identify Mormons by - Mormons were about as unpopular as renegade Indians and would be blamed for anything if someone thought beating the living daylights out of a bystander would make them feel better so outside of the Mormon strongholds Mormon settlers would travel in groups of three or four minimum, eight or nine would be better.

[FifteensAway]

Well, now that just has to be having extra wives to sell off at gold mining camps!   

Now get busy and paint your wagons!

[admiraldick]

looks like you guys have forgotten the single greatest film about Mormons set in the Old West - Cannibal the Musical.

though, the costumes in that are done on such a shoe-string that only the woman in it has anything even approximating something appropriate for the era.

[Chairface]

How about the Perry Mafeking range?

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/index.php?cPath=23_41&osCsid=qv4c88bsf80goabb3ee048bp24

[marianas_gamer]

"Magic underpants."  Totally agree!!
Carlos you totally cracked me up - gin up the nose      How would you paint those?  This sounds like a challenge for the ever talented (and mildly demented) Bugsda (What do you say Chris?)
LB

[admiraldick]

Ooh, chairface reminds me of the perry ACW rioters. Their costumes are pretty dated by Wild West era standards, so they fit in quite well as extremely traditional types (which is how they are often depicted in westerns).

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/index.php?cPath=23_32&page=3&osCsid=qv4c88bsf80goabb3ee048bp24

[Cubs]

Don't forget the chinny beards. Very popular on the elders especially.

[Bugsda]

What do you say Chris?

Got any research material Lon?

I did try and pull a Mormon bird back in the 70s, unfortunately, unless you were Donny Osmond you had no chance of a look at her pants. 
 

[carlos marighela]

I did try and pull a Mormon bird back in the 70s, unfortunately, unless you were Donny Osmond you had no chance of a look at her pants. 

Names and genders have been changed to maintain the victim's anonymity....

http://scandalouswoman.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/joyce-mckinney-and-manacled-mormon.html

See, there's another option: handcuffs.

 

[NickNascati]

Good ideas from all, thanks.