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All Texas names come with a story. We look at a dozen of them. A new book, “Texas Place News,” helps us discover naming origins. If you are cruising west from Austin along Texas 71 on your way to Spicewood or Marble Falls, do you pass through Bee Cave or Bee Caves? Despite the counterevidence of stubbornly inconsistent street signs, you will go through the rapidly expanding Hill Country suburb of Bee Cave. Yet it was not always so. This Travis County spot is named for the Mexican honeybees that swarmed in a cavern near what became known as Bee Cave Creek. Yet its first post office opened on April 19, 1870, with Martin V. Lackey as postmaster, under the plural form “Bee Caves,” according to “Texas Place Names. ....