This is a marvelous collection of Spanish proverbs from the southwestern United States: Southwestern Spanish Proverbs ~ Refranes Españoles del Sudoeste by Rubén Cobos.
The book contains 1697 proverbs organized alphabetically, with an English translation for each proverb, and also a bit of commentary.
Cobos was an important folklorist who studied the traditions of Spanish New Mexico; you can find out more about his work here: The Cobos Collection. He is also the author of A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish.
Cobos also published a wonderful bilingual collection of folktales too, Cuentos from My Childhood; Legends and Folktales of Northern New Mexico, and hopefully that will show up someday at the Internet Archive too. Meanwhile, you have plenty of proverbs to enjoy right now.
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